Josef Hermann Tautenhayn
Josef Hermann Tautenhayn (May 5, 1837 - April 1, 1911) was a medalist, sculptor, and professor from Austria-Hungary.
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Josef Hermann Tautenhayn

Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (1845-1916), Austrian entrepreneur and amateur photographer · A. R. von Loehr: Wiener Medailleure, Wien 1899, before p. 13 https: pg=PA10-IA4 · Public domain
- Name
- Josef Hermann Tautenhayn
- Born
- 5 May 1837
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
- Died
- 1 April 1911
- Field
- Sculpture, Medallic art, Academic art, teaching
- Training
- Imperial mint of Austria, Carl Radnitzky, Franz Lukas Bauer
- Movement
- Academicism
- Nationality
- Austria–Hungary
- Occupation
- sculptor · medalist · designer
- Languages
- German
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Josef Hermann Tautenhayn (May 5, 1837 - April 1, 1911) was a medalist, sculptor, and professor from Austria-Hungary.
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The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Vienna. Work by Josef Hermann Tautenhayn is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, National Gallery of Victoria, National Museum Paleis het Loo, TextielMuseum and Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
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• Name — Josef Hermann Tautenhayn • Born — 5 May 1837 • Birthplace — Vienna, Austria • Died — 1 April 1911 • Place of death — Vienna, Austria • Field — Sculpture, Medallic art, Academic art, teaching • Training — Imperial mint of Austria, Carl Radnitzky, Franz Lukas Bauer • Movement — Academicism
Biography
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.
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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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This entry is compiled from 4 catalogued sources across 4 independent registers. The registers consulted are Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Library of Medicine. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection records associated with Josef Hermann Tautenhayn (6 objects).) • Born: Josef Hermann Tautenhayn was born in 1837 at Vienna.
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