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Maximilian Dasio. 1908.
IO — ƧEF･FLOSSMANN･AETATIƧ･ƧVAE･XLVI･A･D･MCMVIII❀ (Josef Floßmann in the year of his age 46, AD 1908). Cast bronze, medium-brown patina, 67.68 mm; 153.61 g. Edge-punch ･I ･X — I. Vorzüglich (extremely fine).
Obverse: Portrait profile head and collar bust of subject to left, hair and beard extending into double pearled borders enclosing title legend; artist's signature ･DAƧIO･PICT･ (pictor = artist) under collar-cut of the bust.
Reverse: Naked Prometheus in profile left to right, lying upon rock, head thrown back, back arched, knees raised, shackled arms twisting in agony as eagle perches on his torso; inscription HOMINES FECISTI (you have made mankind) in exergue under rock ground line; artist's initial D— upper right; pearled rim.
Cf: Hofmann, Helga D. 1974. Kleinplastik und figürliches Kunsthandwerk aus den Beständen des Münchner Stadtmuseums 1880 - 1930, pp. 32, 35: no. 16 (ill. reverse).
Cf: Weber, Ingrid S. 1985. Maximilian Dasio 1864 - 1954: Münchner Maler Medailleur und Ministerialrat. Staatliche Münzsammlung München, pp. 46 - 48: no. 35 (full-page illustration).
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. 82 -83: no. 326; II (Studien und Tafeln): pl. 24.
Cf: Heidemann, Martin. 1998. Medaillenkunst in Deutschland von 1895 bis 1914. Die Kunstmedaille in Deutschland, Band 8, p. 131, 380 (ill): no. 133.
Josef Flossmann (1862 - 1914) was a Munich sculptor and artist colleague of Dasio. Much of his sculpture was designed to be integrated into architecture in Munich and southern Germany.