Scharff, Anton#

Scharff, Anton, b. Vienna, June 10, 1845, d. Brunn am Gebirge (Lower Austria), July 5, 1903, medal-maker of the Ringstrassen period. 1882 head, 1896 director of the Vienna Engravers´ Academy. As a characteristic representative of the late historical pictorial movement S. created numerous medals and plaques of supreme quality and worked for prominent foreign customers (Munich, London). 1887 created the medallions portraying the imperial couple for the loggia of the Burgtheater.

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