Abraham Abramson

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Abraham Abramson, engraving by Johann Samuel Halle after Johann Georg Rosenberg (1802)

Abraham Abramson (* 1752 or 1754 in Potsdam ; † July 23, 1811 in Berlin ) was a German and the most important Jewish medalist and royal Prussian mint master .

Life

Gold medal from 1783

Abraham Abramson was a pupil of his father Jakob Abraham Abramson (1723–1800), worked in Berlin and made medals on current events of his time, especially from Prussian history. He also depicted celebrities such as Immanuel Kant , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Christoph Martin Wieland , Johann Georg Sulzer , Friedrich Gedike , Leonhard Euler , Moses Mendelssohn and Marcus Herz , and some medals with a Jewish content also come from him.

Abramson is considered to be "the most important representative of classicism in Germany" in his field . He created more than 250 medals . In addition, he made 57 commemorative coins by 1807 , which are recorded in Johann Georg Meusel's Teutschem Künstlerlexikon from 1808.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Abraham Abramson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Ferdinand Dahl: Abraham Abramson , in the: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , Part 2 ( Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde eV ( Memento from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), volume 87 ). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2013, p. 6 (with 2 images); as (PDF document)