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Lange, Konrad (13.09.1806 Ulm - 24.04.1856 Perchtoldsdorf) |
German medalist and die-engraver. Student of C. Voigt. From 1834 to 1840 he worked as an engraver of coins and medals in Athens. From 1843 in Vienna. Lange was born in Ulm in 1806 and came to Munich as a student of Carl Friedrich Voigt. From 1834 to 1840 Lange became a Royal Greek coin and medal engraver in Athens. In order to obtain more contemporary medals in Vienna, Lange was called to Vienna in 1843. From then on, he was more often preferred for commissions for medals of the Viennese court. From 1843 he is documented as an adjunct medallist engraver at the k.k. Hauptmünzamt (Imperial an Royal Central Mint) in Vienna. In 1849 Lange produced the portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I in wax, after which all medals were to be engraved. He produced a medal on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the reign of Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, in 1846. In commemoration of the erection and unveiling of the Austria Fountain on the Freyung in Vienna in 1846, the Viennese magistrate commissioned a medal from Konrad Lange. Lange died in 1856 in Perchtoldsdorf, Lower Austria. Lit.: Thieme-Becker XXII (1999) p. 327; 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. 122-123, 150, 594-597, 599-604, 609, 618-619; E. Fiala - J. Müller - J. Raudnitz, Katalog der Münz- und Medaillenstempelsammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien IV (1906) p. 1291; L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists III (1907) pp. 297-299; VII (1923) p. 532. |
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Die-cutter  , Medalist |
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https://d-nb.info/gnd/1017521794 |
VIAF |
http://viaf.org/viaf/71144722 |
https://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_L/Lange_Conrad_1806_1856.xml |
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