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Seidan, Wenzel (14.05.1817 - 29.03.1870) |
Medalist. Seidan was born in Prague in 1817 and studied at the local Academy of Fine Arts from 1831. From 1835 to 1844 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and won the Reichel Prize (1838) as well as the Füger Prize (1842). Seidan worked mainly as a private medaist. In the early 1840s he spent time in Rome, Florence, Naples and Sicily. In 1848 he moved to Vienna and in 1866, after the death of Joseph Daniel Böhm, he applied for the position of head of the Engraving Academy at the k.k. Hauptmünzamt (Imperial an Royal Central Mint) in Vienna. Numerous portrait medals were produced by him, including one on the President of the Court Chamber, Baron von Kübeck. In 1848 Seidan produced a detailed, elaborate medal on the constitution with Emperor Ferdinand I seated in coronation regalia. Seidan died in Vienna in 1870. His brother Thomas Seidan was a sculptor in Prague. Seidan's pupil was Wenzel Křiž, also a private engraver in Prague, who made medals on the death of Emperor Ferdinand I. 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. 165, 315, 611; E. Fiala - J. Müller - J. Raudnitz, Katalog der Münz- und Medaillenstempelsammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien IV (1906) pp. 1383-1384; L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists V (1912) p. 463-466; J. Mareš, Wenzel Seidan und seine Werke, übersetzt von Peter Hauser, Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Numismatischen Gesellschaft, 38, 1998, pp. 49-64. |
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https://d-nb.info/gnd/138415323 |
VIAF |
http://viaf.org/viaf/84670827 |
Wikidata |
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89827130 |
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