Anton Schultz

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Anton Schultz (* approx. 1690 in Stockholm , † 1736 in Moscow ) was a Swedish medalist and die cutter .

Life

Anton Schultz came from Stockholm, when he was born there, but is still unknown. To 1709 he entered the service of the in Leipzig making medal artist Albrecht Krieger . This undoubtedly taught Schultz in die cutting. In 1717 he left the trade fair city and took up a job at the mint in Copenhagen . Under the local mint master Christian Wineke († 1746), Schultz was responsible for cutting the coin and medal dies as well as for the minting process. In 1724 the medalist accepted a call to Moscow. In the course of the hiring negotiations he had obviously succeeded in ousting Johann Carl Hedlinger , who was also known to Schultz , who was also trying to get a job at the local mint . The contract was initially signed for six years and later extended for a further five years. Not only the cutting of dies and punches was part of his activities there, an integral part of his tasks was the training of Russian-born students. However, complaints have accumulated that Schultz did not properly comply with this latter obligation. In a contemporary report it was criticized that he was quite weak and unwilling to work properly. His frequent drunkenness was also criticized. The artist died in Moscow in 1736.

Create

The artistic oeuvre of Schultz identified so far can be classified as rather manageable. During his time in Copenhagen only three medals are likely to have been created, all of which relate to events in 1721. One work is dedicated to the marriage of Prince Christian of Denmark to Sophie Magdalene von Brandenburg-Kulmbach . Schultz made another coin on the second marriage of King Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway to Anna Sophie von Reventlow . The third medal appeared on behalf of Russia . It shows Peter the Great on the obverse and pays tribute to the peace of Nystad .

At least six different types of medals can be assigned to Schultz's Moscow years. In 1724, Catherine I's coronation as Russian empress gave rise to the minting of a medal. Schultz cut the stamp for the front. A year later followed a memorial piece on the occasion of the death of Peter I. Another stamp on this potentate is dated 1716 and pays tribute to his fleet command off Bornholm . This medal appears to be a later copy by Schultz of an unsigned showpiece that was probably made in 1716. In 1728 a type of embossing was created for the coronation of Peter II as Emperor of Russia, of which there is a small-format and a larger-format version and the obverse again goes back to Schultz. On the occasion of Anna Ivanovna's accession to the throne in 1730, two other medals of similar design appeared. The front side is also by Schultz. In the following year the artist presented the last commemorative piece of a coin reform initiated by Empress Anna.

The medals of Schultz include "A · SCHULTZ FEC ·", "SCHVLTZ * F *" or "S * F *" signed .

literature

  • Mirko Schöder: The medalist and die cutter Albrecht Krieger. Baroque medal art in Leipzig. ed. from the Society for Thuringian Coin and Medal Studies e. V., Neustadt an der Orla 2019, ISBN 978-3-9809196-0-9 .
  • Evgenia S. Tschukina: Dva veka russkoi medali. Medal`ernoe iskusstvo v Rossii 1700-1917 , Moscow 2000.

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Individual evidence

  1. Cf. Mirko Schöder: The medalist and die cutter Albrecht Krieger. Medal art of the baroque in Leipzig , ed. from the Society for Thuringian Coin and Medal Studies e. V., Neustadt an der Orla 2019, p. 42.
  2. See ibid., P. 41.
  3. See ibid., P. 42f.
  4. Cf. Evgenia S. Tschukina: Monogrammy i podpisi na russkich medaljach XVIII - natschala XX vekov , Kiew 2002, p. 63.
  5. See Hans-Ulrich Geiger: On the 200th anniversary of JC Hedlinger's death on March 14, 1971. Autobiographical note , In: Swiss Numismatic Society (Ed.): Swiss Numismatic Rundschau, Volume 50, Bern 1971, p. 10.
  6. Cf. Evgenia S. Tschukina: Dva veka russkoi medali. Medal`ernoe iskusstvo v Rossii 1700-1917 , Moscow 2000, p. 42.
  7. See note 5, p. 10.
  8. Cf. Georg Galster: Danske og norske Medailler og Jetons approx. 1533 - approx. 1788 , Copenhagen 1936, pp. 201f.
  9. See note 4, p. 63.
  10. See Mikhail E. Diakov: Medals of the Russian Empire. Part 1. 1672 - 1725 , o. O. 2004, p. 197.
  11. See ibid., Pp. 202, 209 and p. 171.
  12. See note 6, p. 43 and Mikhail E. Diakov: Medals of the Russian Empire. Part 2. 1725 - 1796 , o. O. 2005, p. 15, p. 21, p. 25 and p. 27.
  13. See note 1, p. 44.