Christoph Carl Pfeuffer
Christoph Carl Pfeuffer (born October 29, 1801 in Suhl , Thuringia , † December 24, 1861 in Berlin ) was a German engraver and medalist .
Life
Christoph Carl Pfeuffer was the son of the master carpenter Johann Heinrich Pfeuffer and his wife Barbara Cadarina, née Kreißen.
He worked as a volunteer at the Saxon court engraver Johann Veit Döll , where he developed into a first-class die cutter .
In 1820 Pfeuffer moved to Berlin and started working for Gottfried Bernhard Loos' Berlin medal mint . In 1831 he married the 21-year-old Sabine Tugendreich Marggraff and lost her a year later to childbed fever after the birth of their daughter. Pfeuffer was often ill and remained loyal to Berlin until his death from a lung attack on December 24, 1861. He left two orphaned grandchildren. Pfeuffer was a member of the Berlin Freemasons' lodge at the golden plow . He was buried in the Sophien-Kirchhof in Berlin.
- 1820: Engraver at the Berlin medal mint Loos
- 1828: Chef d'atelier at the Berlin medal mint Loos. From 1822 to 1828 around 80,000 medals were made and sold here.
- 1840: Medalist at the Royal Mint in Berlin .
- 1842: Royal court and coin medalist.
- 1845: 1st coin medalist at the Royal Mint in Berlin.
Works (selection)
- 1839: Bronze - medal to the 300 anniversary of the Reformation in Prussia ; on the front with the half-length portrait of Joachim II. Hector , Elector of Brandenburg , and Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia; on the lapel is a lively scene with Elector Joachim in typical clothes at the Lord's Supper
During his 20 years at the Royal Mint, Pfeuffer also cut the mint dies for many other German states: For Hamburg , Hessen-Kassel , Hohenzollern , Lippe-Detmold , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Reuss-Obergreiz , Saxony-Meiningen , Saxony-Weimar , Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , Waldeck and Pyrmont .
literature
- Leonard Forrer : Biographical dictionary of medallists, coin-, gem-, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, etc. ancient and modern vol. 4, Spink & Son, London 1909, pp. 475–476 ( digitized version )
- Ferdinand Dahl: 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 , Volume 87). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2013, p. 6 (with 4 images); as (PDF document)
- Reinhold Zilch : The Berlin Reformation Medal from 1839 as a school prize. The use of the medal in the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Part 1: The donation of a Reformation medal by the Berlin magistrate in 1839 and the competition between Christoph Carl Pfeuffer and Gottfried Bernhard Loos . Part 2: The distribution of the Berlin Reformation Medal from 1839 and the reallocation of the surplus copies to a school prize for the next 100 years. In: money trend. International magazine for coins and paper money 50 (2018), no. 5, pp. 90–97; H. 9, pp. 104-108.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Bernhart: Medals and Plaques . In: Library for art and antique collectors . tape 1 . Schmidt, Berlin 1920, p. 207 ( online ).
- ↑ a b Klaus Sommer: The medals of the royal Prussian court medalists Christoph Carl Pfeuffer and Friedrich Wilhelm Kullrich . 1st edition. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1986, ISBN 3-7648-1721-6 , p. 3 ff .
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SURNAME | Pfeuffer, Christoph Carl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver and medalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1801 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Suhl , Thuringia |
DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1861 |
Place of death | Berlin |