Maximilian Dasio

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Maximilian Dasio (born February 28, 1865 in Munich , † August 17, 1954 in Oberammergau ) was a German painter and medalist .

Life

Maximilian Dasio studied at the Munich Art Academy . From 1891 he worked as an independent artist, ran a private school for graphic arts and applied arts and was a teacher at the women's academy of the Munich Artists ' Association from 1896 to 1901 . In 1902 he became a professor at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich , in 1910 a government and student councilor in the Royal Ministry of the Interior for Church and School Affairs in Bavaria, and in 1920 he became a ministerial advisor in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture .

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Maximilian Dasio, together with Rudolf Bosselt , Georg Roemer and Benno Elkan, is considered to be a re-founder of the art of medals in Germany . He modeled his cast portraits in the style of the Renaissance . He created his most important embossed medals as an autodidact with directly engraved stamps , without the use of a reduction machine.

During the Weimar Republic , several official commemorative coins and the value side of the 5 Reichsmark course coin were minted according to Dasio's designs.

Publications

  • The devil. ( Portfolio with twenty variations in woodcuts) Verlag Die Heimkehr, Munich-Pasing 1919 (hand-printed on laid paper; 50 numbered copies)

Known students

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Prof. Maximilian Dasio. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 2, 2015 .
  2. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Dasio, Maximilian. Volume VII. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1923, pp. 205 .
  3. ^ Paul Arnold et al .: Large German coin catalog from 1800 to today. 26th edition , Battenberg Gietl Verlag , Regenstauf 2010, pp. 534, 545, 548 and 550.