!!!Tautenhayn, Josef

b. Vienna, May 5, 1837, 
d. Vienna, April 1, 1911, sculptor and medal coiner; father of the 
sculptor Josef T. the Younger and of Karl  Tautenhayn. From 1862 
engraver of medals at the Central Mint, from 1874 director of the 
engraver´s college and 1881-1905 teacher at the Vienna Academy. 
Produced numerous portrait and commemorative medals, artistic works 
and ornamental sculptures for the monumental buildings on the Vienna 
Ringstrasse (e.g. for the University, the Kunsthistorisches Museum and 
Parliament).

!Literature
E. Finke, Die Tautenhayns, 1965.



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