Medal of Johannes Brahms
medalist
Anton Scharff
(Vienna, 1845 - 1902, Brunn am Gebirge, Austria)
Date1893
Place MadeVienna, Vienna state, Austria, Europe
MediumBronze
Dimensions5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.)
ClassificationsMedals and Medallions
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberM1w14
eMuseum ID720641
Previous Number61
EmbARK ObjectID11041
TMS Source ID296
Last Updated11/21/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryGardner collected a number of medals to display within her museum, including this bronze portrait medal honoring celebrated composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Through her own efforts, Gardner met Brahms while both were on holiday in Bad Ischl, Austria in 1894. Her biographer Morris Carter notes that an acquaintance of Gardner’s caught a glimpse of the two “having tea together like old friends,” and that Brahms gave her an autographed photograph at the end of their meeting.
BibliographyNotesMax Kalbeck. Johannes Brahms, IV (Vienna, 1915), p. 320.
Jan Swafford. Johannes Brahms: A Biography (New York, 2012), p. 558.
Yale University Art Gallery ECatalogue, New Haven, accessed 2013. http://artgallery.yale.edu
Tanya Karpiak. "The medallic secrets of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." The Medal (Autumn 2014), p. 19.
Jan Swafford. Johannes Brahms: A Biography (New York, 2012), p. 558.
Yale University Art Gallery ECatalogue, New Haven, accessed 2013. http://artgallery.yale.edu
Tanya Karpiak. "The medallic secrets of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." The Medal (Autumn 2014), p. 19.
MarksNotesSigned (obverse): A. Scharff
Inscribed (reverse): DIE GESELLSCHAFT DER MUSIKFREUNDE IN WIEN, ZUM 60. GEBURTSTAGE 7. MAI 1893 [The Society of Friends of the Music in Vienna , on its 60th anniversary, 7th May 1893]
Inscribed (reverse): DIE GESELLSCHAFT DER MUSIKFREUNDE IN WIEN, ZUM 60. GEBURTSTAGE 7. MAI 1893 [The Society of Friends of the Music in Vienna , on its 60th anniversary, 7th May 1893]
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 1893.
