Johann Adam Ries

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Johann Adam Ries, self-portrait

Johann Adam Ries (born October 16, 1813 in Kulmbach , † October 16, 1889 in Munich ) was a German medalist , coin engraver and graphic artist at the Bavarian Main Mint .

Live and act

He was the son of the Kulmbach master turner and mechanic Johann Ries and received his first training from him. As early as 1834 he and his father made a metal flag top with a Bavarian lion for the Landwehr battalion in his hometown. In the festschrift for the consecration of the flag, Johann Adam Ries is expressly recognized as the artist who provided the design and shape for the flag tip. In the same publication it is said of the father that he was "in the field of the woodturning art, as well as the finer metalwork and mechanics" an "excellent autodidact" , well known in the whole wide area as a modest, undemanding citizen and master turner. From January 1840 Ries attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he learned the art of die cutting . From 1844 Johann Adam Ries worked as a coin engraver, later also as a medalist at the Bavarian Main Mint in Munich; at that time still based in the old mint . He died in Munich in 1889.

During the time of his professional activity, Ries designed and manufactured numerous coins and medals. He cut u. a. 1872 a new coin portrait of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, which from then on was used on Bavarian silver and gold coins. It also adorned the portrait side of the Ludwig Medal for Science and Art , donated in the same year . Another of his coin portraits is Prince Albert von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1867). During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 , he made a new stamp for the Bavarian Bravery Medal , which was also used to mint the medals issued in the First World War . He redesigned the front donor bust of King Maximilian I Joseph , while he only slightly varied the previous heraldic lion on the back. The value side of the first all-German mark piece comes from Johann Adam Ries. It was minted in this form from 1873 and its design, with oak leaves , still influenced the design of the 1 DM piece of the Federal Republic . In 1882 Ries designed the official medal for the 300th anniversary of the University of Würzburg . In 1881 he cut the portrait side of the Hessian Merit Medal with a portrait of Grand Duke Ludwig IV , and in 1884 that of the Alice Medal with a portrait of the late Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse . There is a one-sided medal with a self-portrait by Johann Adam Ries.

gallery

  • The coin portrait of King Ludwig II made by Ries (with signature)

  • Ludwig Medal for Science and Art

  • Vereinstaler Schwarzburg Rudolstadt, 1867 (stamp from Ries)

  • The value side of the first German mark piece designed by Ries

  • Bavarian Medal of Bravery, obverse (with signature)

literature

  • The coins of the Kingdom of Bavaria , in: Deutsches Münzen-Magazin , Stuttgart, No. 2 of the year 2011, p. 54 u. 55; (PDF view)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sons and Daughters of the City. Johann Adam (Peter) Ries. STADT KULMBACH, accessed on September 8, 2018 .
  2. ^ Carl August Schramm: The consecration of the flag of the royal Landwehr battalion in Kulmbach, which was solemnly carried out on August 25, 1834 , Kulmbach, 1834, p. 28; (Digital scan)
  3. ↑ Registration of the Academy of Fine Arts
  4. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1844, column 264 of the year; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ Thieme-Becker: General Lexicon of Visual Artists , Volume 28, p. 340, Leipzig, 1934; (Digital scan)
  6. ^ Website on the Markstück from 1873
  7. ↑ Another website for the first German mark piece
  8. ↑ We are one people , brochure, Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen Berlin, 2010, p. 12; (PDF document) ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ww2.smb.museum
  9. ^ Medal for the university anniversary of Würzburg
  10. ^ Website on the Hessian Merit Medal from 1881
  11. ↑ Website for the Alice Medal
personal data
SURNAME Ries, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medalist, coin engraver and graphic artist at the Bavarian Main Mint
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulmbach
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1889
Place of death Munich