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Scharff, Johann Michael (11.11.1806 - 22.05.1855) |
Medalist, die-engraver, stone and gem cutter. Scharff was born in Vienna in 1806 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Luigi Pichler. In 1832 he was accepted as a trainee engraver at the k.k. Hauptmünzamt (Imperial an Royal Central Mint) in Vienna. In 1842 he received a scholarship for two years to study in Rome. In 1855 Scharff was appointed assistant engraver at the Vienna Main Mint, but died in the same year. Together with Johann Martin Eckhart Scharff produced a medal in 1841 for the opening of the section of the southern railway from Vienna to Raab. A medal created in 1847 for the protectorate by Empress Maria Anna for the children's hospital stands out in particular. Scharff is also said to have produced a portrait of the empress, for which she is said to have sat for him personally. His son Anton Scharff became a medallist, too. Lit.: A. Mayr, Kaiser Ferdinand I. (1793-1875) und die Medaille. Die Medaillenproduktion am Hauptmünzamt in Wien zwischen 1835 und 1848 in kunsthistorischem und historischem Kontext, unpubl. phil. Diss. Vienna (2020) pp. 168-169, 175, 190, 305-306; E. Fiala - J. Müller - J. Raudnitz, Katalog der Münz- und Medaillenstempelsammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien IV (1906) pp. 1331-1332; L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists V (1912) p. 374; B. Müller, Johann Michael Scharff, Steinschneider und Medailleur (2001). |
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https://d-nb.info/gnd/123861810 |
VIAF |
http://viaf.org/viaf/47680220 |
Wikidata |
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55860782 |
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