Mauritz Frumerie

Swedish medal engraver and lithographer
Olof Swartz, sketch drawn by Frumerie, 1824

Mauritz Frumerie (18 May 1775 – 7 March 1853)[1] was a Swedish medal engraver and lithographer.

Biography

Frumerie was born on 18 May 1775 in Karlskrona.[2] He was the son of the inspector at the Admiralty College Klas Elias Frumerie[3] and Margareta Sofia Stierngranat. Mauritz Frumerie was a grandson of Johan Frumerie (died 1756), secretary of the Admiralty in Karlskrona.[4] From 1804 he was married to Katarina Magni.[3]

Frumerie was a student and assistant to Carl Enhörning and from 1791 took part in the teaching at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. He worked independently from 1806 and in 1808 was hired by the Academy of Sciences, being appointed as an agré at the Academy of Fine Arts the same year. As part of his work for the Academy of Sciences he made medals of its members until 1846 when he stopped this activity.

Among Frumerie's works are medals on the coronation of Charles XIII (1809), the jubelfesten in 1818, the jubilee parties of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Sciences in 1839, and of Fredrik Henrik af Chapman.[5] Frumerie also worked as a portrait lithographer. Frumerie is represented at, among others, Uppsala University Library.

Gallery

  • Front of medal depicting Oscar I in profile, 1818
    Front of medal depicting Oscar I in profile, 1818
  • Medal with Anders Johan Retzius in profile, 1842
    Medal with Anders Johan Retzius in profile, 1842
  • Back of medal with image of scientific instruments and globe with wreath of oak leaves, 1841
    Back of medal with image of scientific instruments and globe with wreath of oak leaves, 1841
  • Back of medal, struck on the occasion of the renewal of the silk farm at Bellevue in 1830, 1830
    Back of medal, struck on the occasion of the renewal of the silk farm at Bellevue in 1830, 1830
  • Front of medal depicting Laurentius Petri in profile, 1842
    Front of medal depicting Laurentius Petri in profile, 1842
  • Medal with Bengt Reinhold Geijer in profile, 1840
    Medal with Bengt Reinhold Geijer in profile, 1840
  • Front of medal depicting Karl Johan in profile, 1839
    Front of medal depicting Karl Johan in profile, 1839
  • Front of medal depicting Carl Gustaf Wrangel in profile, 1841
    Front of medal depicting Carl Gustaf Wrangel in profile, 1841

References

  1. ^ Carl Georg Starbäck, P. O. Bäckström (1886). Berättelser ur svenska historien Volumes 10-11. F. & G. Beijers Förlag. p. 502. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Wieselgren, Oscar Harald (1944). Bengt Hildebrand; Nils Axel Erik Bohman; Torsten Dahl (eds.). Svenska män och kvinnor biografisk uppslagsbok. Vol. 2. Bonnier. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Mauritz Frumerie". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  4. ^ "Frumerie, släkt". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  5. ^ Wieselgren, Oscar Harald (1944). Bengt Hildebrand; Nils Axel Erik Bohman; Torsten Dahl (eds.). Svenska män och kvinnor biografisk uppslagsbok. Vol. 2. Bonnier. p. 624. Retrieved 16 November 2021.