Abraham Aaron
Abraham Aaron (* 1744 in Dargun ; † February 2, 1825 in Schwerin ) was a German medalist and die cutter .
Abraham Aaron was appointed court medalist in Mecklenburg in 1764 . From 1771 he worked with his brother Philipp Aaron as a piercer without a permanent job at the Mint in Schwerin, from 1774 to 1776 in Stockholm and then again in Schwerin. He created medals on the dukes Friedrich (1773/74) and Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1785; 1798), also on Hamburg and Lübeck personalities (1784 to 1802) and on the orientalist Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1813). He signed AA or A. Aaron . His son Joseph Aaron worked as a medalist and die cutter as his successor in Schwerin.
literature
- Heinrich Usefulel: Aaron, Abraham . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 3 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Karl Schwarz : Aaron, Abraham. In: Jewish Lexicon . Volume 1, Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1927, column 1 ( digitized version ; with the wrong year of death 1798).
- Aaron (family of medalists, die cutters and gemstone cutters) 1 . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 17 f.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aaron, Abraham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medalist and die cutter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1744 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dargun |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1825 |
| Place of death | Schwerin |