Max Lewy

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Max Lewy (born March 5, 1885 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 23, 1920 ibid) was a German medalist .

Life

Max Lewy completed an apprenticeship as a silverware worker in the Lazarus Posen Widow silverware factory in Frankfurt am Main. He then attended the Frankfurt / Main School of Applied Arts with a scholarship from the Rothschild Foundation. In the local chasing class he was a student of Eduard Staniek and at times his assistant.

In 1909, a donation from a patron enabled him to spend a year in Paris , which he used to study at the Académie Julian .

Lewy was also active as a sculptor and painter.

Works (selection)

Lewy designed medals during the First World War .

  • Medal Ludwig Alfred Mayer , 1915
  • Portrait medal Ernst Justus Haeberlin, 70th birthday , 1917 bronze cast, 70 mm
  • Portrait medal Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach
  • Portrait medal Alexander Fiorino , bronze cast medal from 1917
  • Wedding coin for Siegmund Rosenbaum and Dora Hamburger , attributed to Max Levy, 1914
  • Portrait medal Julius Schottländer

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Nicolaus Witt: World Exhibition in Paris 1900. Official catalog of the exhibition of the German Empire. Reichskommissariat, JA Stargardt, 1900, p. 360.
  2. ↑ a b Alexander Bastek: Of heads and bodies. Frankfurt sculpture from the Städel. Municipal gallery in the Städelschen Kunstinstitut , Giersch, Frankfurt am Main 2006, p. 183.
  3. ^ Paul Joseph: Max Lewy and his work. In: Frankfurter Münzzeitung, Volume 15, Number 175, 1915, pp. 455–464.
  4. ↑ Martin Heidemann: Medaillenkunst in Deutschland from 1895 to 1914. Volume 8: The art medal in Germany , Berlin 1998, p. 504. In: Max Lewy , German society for medal art .
  5. ^ Bernhard Weisser: Medallic Art in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War (2017) . In: The Art of Devastation. Medals and Posters of the Great War. American Numismatic Society, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-89722-348-5 , p. 132.
  6. ^ Lewy, Max: Ludwig Alfred Mayer. In: German Society for Medal Art
  7. ↑ Blätter für Münzfreunde , 1917, p. 321.
  8. ^ Report of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main , issues 46–49. Senckenberg Society for Nature Research , 1916, p. 83.
  9. ↑ Münzzeitung , Frankfurt 1918, pp 382 and 383. In: Henry Winter: Germany - abroad. Coins, medals, plaques. Auction 102 of April 4, 2007 in the Börsenhotel Düsseldorf, p. 272.
  10. ↑ Lot number: a20096. In: Historama Autumn Auction, 2016, p. 39.
  11. ^ Leonard Forrer: Biographical dictionary of medallists. Coin-, gem-, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, & c., Ancient and modern, with references to their works. BC 500-A , Volume 7. Baldwin, 1923, ISBN 978-9-07029-602-5 , p. 553.
  12. ^ The Numismatist , Volume 82, Issues 7-12, 1969, p. 910.
personal data
SURNAME Lewy, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1920
Place of death Frankfurt am Main