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List of medallists

List of medallists is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of medallists rather than just read about it. In short: A medallist or medalist (see spelling differences) is an artist who designs medals, plaquettes, badges, coins and similar small works in relief in metal. Art medals are a well-known and highly collected form of small bronze sculpture, most often in bronze, and are considered a form of exonumia. "Medalist/medallist" is confusingly the same word used in sport and other areas (but not usually in military contexts) for…

List of medallists — main illustration
List of medallists — illustration

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Reference excerpt

A medallist or medalist (see spelling differences) is an artist who designs medals, plaquettes, badges, coins and similar small works in relief in metal. Art medals are a well-known and highly collected form of small bronze sculpture, most often in bronze, and are considered a form of exonumia. "Medalist/medallist" is confusingly the same word used in sport and other areas (but not usually in military contexts) for the winner of a medal as an award. Medallists very often also design, or produce the dies for coins as well. In modern times medallists are mostly primarily sculptors of larger works, but in the past the number of medals and coins produced were sufficient to allow specialists who spent most of their career producing them. Medallists are also often confusingly referred to as "engravers" in reference works, referring to the "engraving" of dies, although this is often in fact not the technique used; however many also worked in engraving the technique in printmaking. Art medals have been produced since the late Renaissance period, and, after some classical precedents and Late Medieval revivals, the form was essentially invented by Pisanello, who is credited with the first portrait medal, which has remained a very popular type. He cast them like bronze sculptures, rather than minting them like coins.

By nationality An incomplete list, biased towards the 19th-century onwards; see also Category:Medallists. (Note: Where an artist is best known by other than his first given name, the commonly used name is highlighted in boldface.)

Argentinian Soto Avendaño José Bellagamba Alfredo Bigatti (1898 – 1964) Ernesto de la Cárcova (1866 – 1927) Arturo Dresco (1875 – 1961) Juan Gottuzzo (1858 Buenos Aires – 1924 Buenos Aires) José Horta Jorge Maria Lubary (1862 Buenos Aires – 1938 Buenos Aires). Signature: J.M.LUBARY Victor de Pol (1865 Venice – 1925 Buenos Aires) Francisco Alberto Rossi (1878 Buenos Aires - ). Signature AF. Rossi. Marcos Constante Rossi (1872 Buenos Aires - 1940?). Signature C. Rossi.

Australian

Ernst August Altmann (circa 1850-1920), jeweller, die-maker and engraver. W.J. Amor, Sculptor, (1860 England – after 1947 Sydney, New South Wales) William Leslie Bowles, Sculptor, (1885 Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales - 1954 Frankston, Victoria) Stuart Leslie Devlin, Sculptor, (1931 Geelong, Victoria - 2018 Chichester, United Kingdom) Vladimir Gottwald (born 1950 in Czechia) Horst Hahne, Chief Engraver of the Royal Australian Mint Canberra (born 1940 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Stanley James Hammond MBE, Sculptor, 1913 Trentham, Victoria – 2000 Melbourne, Victoria Rayner Hoff (1894 – 1937) Ing Jong (since 2011 coin designer at Perth Mint) Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal (1863 – 1931) Andor Mészáros (1900 – 1972) Michael Meszaros (born 1945) Mark Nodea (born 1968 Derby, Western Australia) Dora Ohlfsen (1877 – 1948) Wojciech Pietranik (born 1950) Charles Douglas Richardson (1853 – 1932) Signature: CDM Harry Stokes (active 1880 – 1901) Signature: H.S. Thomas Stokes (1831 Edgbaston, Birmingham, England – 1910 Alphington, Melbourne, Victoria) founder of Stokes & Son in 1893. Jeanette Timbery (born 1941 La Perouse, Sydney)

Austrian

Helmut Andexlinger (born 1973 in Linz, Oberösterreich) Michael Blümelhuber (1865 – 1936) Kurt Bodlak (born 1924 in Vienna — died 2017 in Kirchberg am Wechsel) Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834 Vienna, Austria – 1890 London, England) Peter Breithut (1869 – 1930) Josef Cesar (1814 – 1876) Josef Christian Christlbauer (1827 – 1897) Hans Dietrich (1868 – 1936) Ignaz Donner (1752 – 1803) Franz Gaul (1802 – 1974) Hans Gerstmayr (1882 – 1987) Josef Fabi (1780 Mint-warden at Günzburg on the Maria Theresia Thalers). Signature: S.F. in conjunction with Tobias Johann Schöbel. Emil Fuchs (1866 – 1929) Heinrich Friedrich Füger (1751 – 1818) Edwin Grienauer (1893 – 1964) Helmuth Gsöllpointner (born 1933) Grete Hartmann (1869 – 1946) née Chrobak Philipp Häusler (1887 Panczowa, Hungary, today Pančevo, Serbia - 1966 Frankfurt am Main) Alfred Hofmann (1879 – 1958) Otto Hofner (1879 – 1946) Ludwig Hujer (1872 – 1968) Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928 – 2000) Heinrich Jauner (1833 – 1912) Josef Kaiser (1954 Bač, Vojvodina -) Heinrich Ernst Karl (1781 Vienna – 1854 Kremnitz) Josef Köblinger (1912 Innsbruck – 1960) Hans Köttenstorfer (1911 Steyr – 1995 Steyr, Oberösterreich, Austria) Franz Kounitzky (1880 Vienna – 1928 Eichgraben) Ernst Wilhelm Kubiena (1902 Neutitschein, Moravia – 1973 Salzburg) Friedrich Leisek (1839 Vienna - 1914 Vienna) Rudolf Marschall (1873 – 1967) Friedrich Mayr (1929 – 2019) Rudolf Neuberger (1861 – 1916) Franz Xaver Pawlik (1865 – 1906) Karl Perl (1876 Liezen, Styria – 1965 Vienna) Thomas Pesendorfer (born 1952 in Marchtrenk, Oberösterreich) Signature: TP Wolfgang Pichl (1931 Innsbruck - 2003 Linz, Austria) Anton Pittner (1814 – 1892) Richard Placht (Bohemian, 1880–1962) Michael Powolny (1871 Judenburg, Styria, Austria – 1954 Vienna) Carl Radnitzky (1818 Vienna – 1901 Vienna) Hans Schaefer (1875 Sternberg, Moravia – 1933 Chicago, Illinois) Anton Scharff (1845 – 1903) Rudolf Schmidt (1894 – 1980) Tobias Johann Schöbel (1762 – 1789). Mint-master at Günzburg. Signature: S.F. in conjunction with Josef Fabi. Josef Schön (1809 Vienna – 1843 Vienna, Austria). Signature: I. SCHÖN Stefan Schwartz (1851 Neutra, Hungary – 1924 Raabs an der Thaya, Austria) Johann Schwerdtner (1834 – 1920) Franz Stiasny (1881 – 1941) Josef Hermann Tautenhayn (1837 – 1911) Josef Johann Tautenhayn (1868 Speising bei Wien – 1962 Vienna) Fritz Tiefenthaler (1929 Matrei/Brenner, Tyrol – 2010 Vienna) Oskar Thiede (1879 – 1961) Ascher Wappenstein (about 1780 Kraków, today in Poland -) Carl Waschmann (1848 – 1905) Anton Rudolf Weinberger (1879 – 1936?) Ferdinand Maria Josef Welz (1915 – 2008) Johann Nepomuk Wirth (1753 – 1811) Franz Zeichner (1778 – 1862) Alfred Zierler (born 1933) Helmut Zobl (born 1941)

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Illustrations

List of medallists: Medal of the Emperor John VIII Palaiologos during his visit to Florence, by Pisanello (1438). This was the first portrait medal. The legend reads, in Greek: "John the Palaiologos, basileus and autokrator of the Romans".
Medal of the Emperor John VIII Palaiologos during his visit to Florence, by Pisanello (1438). This was the first portrait medal. The legend reads, in Greek: "John the Palaiologos, basileus and autokrator of the Romans".
List of medallists: Medals for the 1908 Olympic Games, designed by Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal
Medals for the 1908 Olympic Games, designed by Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal
List of medallists: Schiller's 150th Birthday, Art Nouveau uniface Bronze-Medal 1909 by Hans Dietrich
Schiller's 150th Birthday, Art Nouveau uniface Bronze-Medal 1909 by Hans Dietrich
List of medallists: Posthumous medallic portrait of William Wyon by his son L. C. Wyon (1854). Both designed coins for Queen Victoria
Posthumous medallic portrait of William Wyon by his son L. C. Wyon (1854). Both designed coins for Queen Victoria
List of medallists: Medal commissioned from Augustin Dupré and issued in 1784 by the American republic to honor Admiral Suffren
Medal commissioned from Augustin Dupré and issued in 1784 by the American republic to honor Admiral Suffren

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with List of medallists

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Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to List of medallists before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about List of medallists ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of List of medallists

In research
List of medallists appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses List of medallists in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
List of medallists is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Exonumia, Lists of artists by medium, Medallists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for List of medallists outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.
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Frequently asked questions

What is List of medallists in simple terms?

A medallist or medalist (see spelling differences) is an artist who designs medals, plaquettes, badges, coins and similar small works in relief in metal. Art medals are a well-known and highly collected form of small bronze sculpture, most often in bronze, and are considered a form of exonumia. "Me…

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  • Exonumia
  • Lists of artists by medium
  • Medallists
  • Numismatics
  • Production of coins

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