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 ...

- 6I BEERMANN, H.A. (Germ.). Administrator of the Mint at Clausthal (Brunswick & Luneburg), in conjunction with the warden Johann Ludwig Jordan (I839-I849). BEETZ-CHARPENTIER, M"0 ELIZA (French). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born in Holland, who won a First Prize in I909 for a Plaquette commemorating the Centenary of the Paris Firm of Pleyel, in competition with several other medallists. Her Plaquette is reproduced in l'Art decoratif, I909, p. 76. Her work has consisted principally of Statuettes, Medals and Plaquettes. She has also exhibited some examples of Furniture adorned with medallions. Mme Charpentier is the widow of the late Alexandre Charpentier. At the New York International Medallic Exhibition, 1910, she exhibited a Portrait-medal of Alexandre Charpentier, and a Plaquette " La Couture ". At the Salon of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, I913, this artist exhibited a selection of Plaquettes and Medallions: Alexandre Charpentier, I904; - M1le Odette Arlaud; - Ricardo Vifies; - Two Children's Portraits (sketches only); - Mil Guillemette Oettinger;- Mle Ninette Creed; — Mle Sophie Monnier; - M"e Johannes Pierson; - Dr Victor Menard, of Berck, France, etc. BEGAS, REINHOLD (B. D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. I5 ). At the Salon de la Medaille, Brussels Exhibition, I9I0, this artist exhibited a Cast Portrait Medal of the painter Adolf Menzel, I895. "Le sculpteur Reinhold Begas est mort quelques jours apres la celebration par toute l'Allemagne de son quatre-vingtieme anniversaire de naissance, a propos duquel l'empereur lui avait conf6er le titre d'Excellence. C'etait, en efiet, le plus renomme des sculpteurs officiels du nouvel Empire allemand. II etait ne a Berlin le 5 juillet I831 et etait le second fils du celebre peintre d'histoire Karl Begas, qui eut encore trois autres fils artistes. Apres avoir suivi, i l'Academie de Berlin, les cours de Wichmann et de Rauch, sous la direction duquel il executa un groupe important: Agar et Ismael, il alla sejourner a Rome, de 8 5 6 a 8 5 9, avec Bcecklin, Lenbach, Felbach, et y subit fortement l'influence de Michel-Ange. Il y executa deux de ses oeuvres les plus aimables: Pan consolant Psyche abandonnee, et sa Famille de Faunes, devenue vite celebre et qui attira sur lui l'attention du grand-duc de Saxe-Weimar. Celui-ci l'appela a enseigner dans l'Ecole qu'il venait de fonder a Weimar; il y professa de I860 a 1862, puis retourna a Rome et enfin revint se fixer a Berlin, apres avoir obtenu le prix pour l'execution d'une statue de Schiller dans la capitale prussienne. Puis il donna a Cologne une statue de Frederic-Guillaume, qui se distingue par son naturalisme

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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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