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(Redirected from Josef Tautenhayn) 19th-century Austrian medalist and sculptor
Josef Hermann Tautenhayn
Undated photo of Tautenhayn by Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller
Born(1837-05-05)5 May 1837
Vienna, Austria
Died1 April 1911(1911-04-01) (aged 73)
Vienna, Austria
NationalityAustrian
EducationImperial mint of Austria, Carl Radnitzky, Franz Lukas Bauer
Known forSculpture, Medallic art, Academic art, teaching
MovementAcademicism

Josef Hermann Tautenhayn (May 5, 1837 - April 1, 1911) was an Austrian medalist, sculptor, and professor.

Biography

Tautenhayn was born in Vienna, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1854–60) under Carl Radnitzky (1818-1901) and sculpture under Franz Lukas Bauer (1798-1872), then in the engravers' academy of the Imperial mint. After his return from a study trip through Italy, France, and England, undertaken in 1869–72, he was appointed Imperial engraver of coins and medals, and in 1881 professor at the academy.

Works

Among a large number of choice medals those commemorating the coronation of Francis Joseph as king of Hungary (1867), the Imperial Silver Wedding (1879), and the bicentennial of the Relief of Vienna from the Turks (1883), are the most noteworthy. His plastic work on a large scale includes a group of the “Birth of Athens,” and statues for the University of Vienna, also statues for the Art-Historical Museum and the Houses of Parliament.

He was one of the sculptors, namely Carl Kundmann and Hugo Haerdtl, who worked with the erection of The Athena Fountain (Pallas-Athene-Brunnen) in front of the Austrian Parliament.

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  1. http://hdl.handle.net/10900/100742 S. Krmnicek and M. Gaidys, Gelehrtenbilder. Altertumswissenschaftler auf Medaillen des 19. Jahrhunderts, p. 32-34, 54f. (three examples)

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