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Medal - Hans Falk

Hans Falk

  • Object:

    Medal

  • Date:

    1553 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Master of the Heidegger Medal (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Lead

  • Museum number:

    147-1867

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

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This is a lead medal made by the master of the Heidegger medal. This medal has only the obverse which represents the bust of Hans Falk facing right, bearded and wearing a low cap.

Habich grouped together a series of medals made between 1553 and 1559, mostly small in size, whose common characteristic is the positioning of the inscriptions on the obverse and reverse between two raised circumference lines. The subjects are men from different cities, suggesting the artist travelled. F. Dworschak cited by Habich suggested they were the work of the Master S. B.(Severin Brachmann?). Habich however believed they were unlikely to be his, and thought they could be by a follower of Lorenz Rosenbaum. The medal attributed to Severin Brachmann, inv. A.392-1910, does not resembel this medal.

Physical description

Obv. only, bust of Hans Falk facing right, bearded and wearing a low cap.

Date

1553 (made)

Artist/maker

Master of the Heidegger Medal (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Lead

Marks and inscriptions

'HANS6*FALK*AETATIS*SVAE*XXXX*'
'1553'

Dimensions

Diameter: 27.5 mm, Weight: 8.1 g

Object history note

Provenance: Tross. 140 medals and reliefs were purchased from M. Henri Tross of Paris for £500 by J.C. Robinson for the Museum in 1867.

Descriptive line

Hans Falk, lead medal by the Master of the Heidegger medal, Germany dated 1553

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Trusted, Marjorie. German Renaissance Medals: A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1990. p. 75.
Inventory of Art Objects acquired in the Year 1867. Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol. 1. London : Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868., p. 20.

Subjects depicted

Bust; Falk, Hans

Categories

Portraits; Coins & Medals

Collection code

SCP

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