Post by: Rabenauge on March 28, 2020, 10:25:09 AM
Arthur Storch. (1909/1910).
Cast bronze, medium-brown patina, 30.20 mm, 13.51 g. Vorzüglich (extremely fine).
Obverse: Profile spider monkey walking along leafed branch to left, face to viewer, tail raised and curled above back; Artist's initials A.ST in exergue formed by branch; pearled border.
Reverse: Stylized laurel-wreath border, three-line inscription ✻ / V Z / ✻ G ✻ (V[erein] Z[oologischer] G[arten] - see below); raised rim.
Cf: Habich, Georg. 1909/10. "Eine Medaillen-Konkurrenz" in Kunst und Handwerk 60, p. 235: no. 445 (ill. obverse).
Cf: Salaschek, Sunhild. 1980. Katalog der Medaillen und Plaketten des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts im französischen und deutschen Sprachraum in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, I (text): pp. 395 - 396: no. 1634; II (Studien und Tafeln): pl. 117.
Cf: Heidemann, Martin. 1998. Medaillenkunst in Deutschland von 1895 bis 1914. Die Kunstmedaille in Deutschland, Band 8, pp. 320: no. 1057- 10) (not illustrated).
The "Zoologischer Garten München e.V. [eingetragener Verein]" (Zoological Garden, Munich, Registered Association) was founded in February 1905, and opened the Hellabrunn Zoo (Tierpark Hellabrunn) to the public 1 August 1911. In 1909 and 1910, Arthur Storch designed a series of eleven medals of various sizes, depicting various animals, to commemorate the inauguration.