Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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Th. Hampe, in Thieme's Allgemn. Kiinstler Lexikon, IX, p. II7
gives a resume of all that is now known concerning this artist.
The name also occurs as TASCHLER or TESCHLER.
Deschler married at Nuremberg in 1532, and on 3. May I537
became a burgher of the city. Between I533 and 1547 he made a
stay in Italy of two years' duration, residing in Venice and later in
Rome. His second wife was the widow of the illuminator, Jorg
Glockendon. As early as 1543 he was brought to the notice of
Archduke Maximilian, the later Emperor Maximilian II. In 1548 he
cut in stone the portrait of Archduke Ferdinand (King of the Romans since 153 I). Towards the end of the fifties the artist settled in
Vienna, where from 563 he styles himself " pilthauer und conterfatter in stain ", and was in receipt of fixed emoluments. His name
occurs for the last time on I. October 157I, and it is surmised that
he died towards the end of that year.
A number of works are ascribed to Deschler, amongst others a
"Kunststtck " of the year 1553, for which Archduke Ferdinand
offered 800 Thalers, but very little is really known of the work of
the Master between 1546 and I558. To this period no doubt belong
the largest number of his cast medals and Portrait pieces, which
are usually signed I D (in monogram). A Portrait-medallion, in
boxwood dated I533, of Laz. Spengler, bears the signature J.T.
Most of the medals were no doubt prepared from models in honestone. One of these is known ot the obv. of the medal of Agnes
Marl, I564, also a double-sided model in wood of the medal of
Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy. The 'Deutsche Gesellschaft'
in Leipzig has also recently acquired the model in stone of obv.,
and PiL of the medal of the Nuremberg patrician ' Florenzius Oertel,
I556.
Deschler's medals comprise: Johann Neud6rfer, Hieron-Baumgartner, Melchior Schedel, Georg Tetzel, Franz Schleicher, Flor.
Oertel, etc. all of Nuremberg; Wolfgang Rechlinger of Augsburg,
Melchior Zobel, bishop of Wurzburg, Ludwig von Hutten; a number
of medals of Austrian Princes, eminent burghers of Vienna, including those of Abraham Sangner and consort, I563; Sebald Kraus,
1509, Joachim Anschuez and Katharina Petersdorf, 570.
Consult Dr Hampe's article for an appreciation of Deschler's art.
DESCHLER (B.). M., Vol. I I, 90, p. 569). By the same Engraver
probably, is a medal of the XV. International Congress of Hygiene
and Demography, Washington, 91 2; Journey of the German delegates, signed: DESCHLER-MUNCHEN.
DESCOMPS, JEAN BERNARD (B. D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 569). Born
in I874; studied for five years at the Toulouse Ecole des BeauxArts, and became later a pupil of Falguiere in Paris. From I898