Bronzes, Marbles, and Medallions by Victor D. Brenner
from April fifteenth to May first 1912
MR. VICTOR D. BRENNER, whose collected works are enumerated in this catalogue, was born in Shavely, Russia, in 1871, and at the age of thirteen began to work with his father in engraving seals and in stone cutting. After three years’ experience under his father’s directions he left home and worked as an engraver of jewelry and a sculptor in various cities of Russia until 1890, when he came to New York and entered as a pupil, first in Cooper Union, then in the School of the National Academy of Design, and in the Art Students’ League, practising [sic] his profession in the daytime and studying at night. In 1898 he went to Paris, became a pupil of Roty and studied in the Julian Academy under Peuch, Verlet and Dubois for two years. After a year’s travel in Italy and Germany he returned to New York and opened a studio and in the course of three years produced a large number of plaques, medals, reliefs and busts.
His work has been shown in the exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, Munich and London and in the important exhibitions in this country. Among other distinctions he has been awarded a bronze medal in the Universal Exposition at Paris in 1900, a mention in the Salon of the same year, a bronze medal at the Buffalo Exhibition and a silver medal at the St. Louis Exposition.
He also received a Medal of Honor in the International Exposition of Brussels in 1910. He is represented in the Luxembourg Gallery in Paris by eighteen pieces, in the collection of the Mint in Paris by twelve pieces, in the Glyptothek in Munich by ten pieces, in the Boston Museum by the same number, and in the Metropolitan Museum of this city by six pieces,” but is perhaps most widely known as the designer of the famous Lincoln cent.
From the Grolier Catalogue by F. D. Millet.
Dr. Otto Binswanger Medallion
The New York Public Library Seal
Mrs. Hambuchen Medallion
Mrs. Julia W. Oettinger Plaquette
Spencer Trask, Esq. Plaquette
President Roosevelt plaquette
Dr. Charles Rabutot Plaquette
Frederick Samuel Tallmadge Medal
Collis P. Huntington Plaquette
The University of Wisconsin plaquette
Professor William H. Welch plaquette
John Fritz medal
United Engineering Societies plaquette
Dr. Dumontier plaquette
J. Sanford Saltus plaquette
The Walters Collection Bookplates
Professor Adoph Werner plaquette
Michigan State Award for Spanish-American War Veterans
International Congress on Tuberculosis badge
Carl Schurz plaquette
Ralph Waldo Emerson plaquette
Abraham Lincoln plaque
Ralph Waldo Emerson medallion
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida medal
National Arts Club of New York plaquette
National Conference of Charities and Corrections medal
Fine Arts Federation of New York plaquette
J. Sanford Saltus medal
Prince Henry medal
Fine Craftsmanship medal
Water Lily
Frederick S. Lamb plaquette
Charles P. Daly medal
Mme. Ernest Raynaud medallion
1900 Universal Exposition plaquette
The Illig medal
Desmond FitzGerald medal
International Congress on Tuberculosis medal
C. Delacour, Esq. plaquette
Edward B. Fulde, Esq. medallion
Miss Anita Stewart plaquette
E. Marblestone Esq.
René plaquette
Young Frenchman with Hat
Fridtjof Nansen plaquette
William Maxwell Evarts, Esq. plaquette
William Openhym plaquette
California Midwinter Exposition medal
Lake George Regatta Association medal
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer medal
Theodore L. De Vinne plaquette
Lloyd McKim Garrison plaquette
Abraham Lincoln medal
St. George Athletic Club medal
Senator Chauncey Depew medal
George William Curtis, Esq. medal
The Society of the Cincinnati medal
Dr. Muhlenberg medal
Red Polled Cattle Club of America medal
Mr. Vadé medallion
Football medal
Ohio State Fair and Industrial Exposition medal
George A. Lucas medallion
Mrs. Katrina Trask plaquette
Monmouth County Historical Society badge
Mlle. Furtbauer plaquette
George A. Lucas medallion
John Paul Jones plaquette
Panama Canal Service Medal badge
New York Historical Society medal
The Wright Brothers medal
James McNeill Whistler plaquette
Mrs. Charlotte May Buffet Smith plaquette
Motherhood medal
W.T. Walters and H. Walters, Esq. plaquette
Rafael Joseffy plaquette
George A. Lucas plaquette
American Geographical Society of New York Cullum medal