On the reverse of the medal, Paul Sturm has combined Berlin's symbol, the bear, with a feather and inkwell, as symbols of the press. The obverse of the medal depicts a female nude with a bow in her hands. She stands in front of a map of Europe.
| Artist |
Paul Sturm
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| Title | Medal of the Twelth International Press Congress in Berlin in 1908 |
| Date | 1908 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Location | Germany TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | title on the front side: XII . INT PRESSE CONGRESS |
| location below: n BERLIN n | |
| year on the reverse: 1908 | |
| Collection | medals AAT |
| Object type | medals AAT |
| Inventory number | 1911-DJ-2 |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
Société Gantoise des Amis de la Médaille Ghent 1911-06-23 |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1911-DJ-2 |
| IIIF Manifest |
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8237/manifest.json
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8238/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25A
maps, atlases
Iconclass
25A21 (map of) Europe Iconclass 25F24(BOAR) hoofed animals: boar Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D120 Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 46D press, journalism Iconclass 49L511 quill Iconclass 49L62 ink-well Iconclass 61E(BERLIN) names of cities and villages (BERLIN) Iconclass |
| Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles en 1910 : Salon international de la médaille contemporaine... : Groupe II: Beaux-Arts ; Classe 9B: Gravure en médailles (Bruxelles, Palais du Cinquantenaire, 01.05 - 15.11.1910) ; Catalogue / Victor Tourneur. - Bruxelles : Imprimerie A. Lesigne, 1910 (p. 31, nr 66) |
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