my-server
← Wiki

List of medallists

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 . (Note: Where an artist is best known by other than his first given name, the commonly used name is highlighted in boldface.)

Argentinian

Australian

Austrian

Belgian

Bermudian

British

Bulgarian

Canadian

Costa Rican

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dominican Republic

Dutch

Estonian

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Irish

Israeli

Italian

Japanese

Latvian

Lebanese

  • Paul Koroleff (1896 St Petersburg, Russia – 1992 Beirut, Lebanon)

Lithuanian

Luxembourg

Monégasque

New Zealand

Norwegian

Peruvian

Polish

  • (1892 Warsaw – 1963 Wielen, Poland)

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Slovak

  • (1851 – 1924)
  • (1919 Mařatice – 2010 Bratislava)
  • (1943 Hubina, Slovak Republic)

South African

Spanish

Swedish

  • Lea Ahlborn (1826 – 1897)
  • (1840 – 1908)
  • (1746 – 1798)
  • (1880 – 1966) Signature: G
  • (1904 Paris – 1989 Stockholm)
  • Ivar Viktor Johnsson (1885-1970)
  • Arvid Karlsteen (1947 - 1718)
  • Svante Kede (1877 – 1955)
  • Olof Lidijn, Mint-master in Stockholm, (1773 – 1819†)
  • (1839 – 1916)
  • J. Erik Lindberg (1873 – 1966)
  • (1789 – 1853), Father of Pehr Henrik Lundgren
  • (1824 – 1855) Signature PHL
  • , Mint-master in Stockholm 1945 – 1961, signature: TS (monogram)
  • C.C. Sporrong & Co., founded 1666 in Stockholm
  • Sebastian Tham, Mint-master in Stockholm 1855 – 1876, 1797 Forsvik, Sweden - 1876 Stockholm. Signature: S.T.
  • Benkt Ulvfot, Mint-master in Stockholm 1961 – 1988, 1923 Nyköping, Sweden - 2013 Norrtälje. Signature: U

Swiss

  • C. (Charles Jean) Richard (1832 Geneva, Switzerland -)
  • (1761 – 1825)
  • (1849 – 1918)
  • (1897 Menziken, Aargau – 1982 Collonge-Bellerive, Genève, Switzerland)
  • (1846 Zürich - 1902 Zollikon)

Tongan

United States

Mints specializing in art medals

References