103646 | GERMANY. Georg Hirth cast bronze Medal.

103646  |  GERMANY. Georg Hirth cast bronze Medal. Issued 1910 to celebrate the writer and influential publisher (111mm, 364.70 g, 12h). By Ludwig Dasio for Carl Poellath in Schrobenhausen.

 

• GEORG • HIRTH • MVENCHEN • ANNO • DOMINI • MCMX, head right // • APHRODITE • DV • HOLDE • DIR • SEI • HEIL • VND • SIEG (oh Aphrodite, you lovely one, may you be safe and victorious), nude Aphrodite standing facing, removing tunic; LVDW - DASIO across field. Edge: «hallmark» C. POELLATH SCHROBENHAUSEN «hallmark».

 

Heidemann 238. Mint State. Warm brown surfaces, with a light matte nature and some scattered spots, most notably at the nape of his neck. Very rare and provocative.

 

Born in in 1841 in modern-day Thuringia, Georg Hirth had a career in journalism at Münchner Neueste Nachrichten before founding Jugend in 1896. This influential magazine focused upon German arts and crafts, and was known for its "...shockingly brilliant covers and radical editorial tone." So influential was it that the magazine's very name came to influence the corresponding Art Nouveau movement in Germany and Austria.

 

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