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Victor David Brenner

American, 1871 - 1924

BiographyVictor David Brenner - sculptor and medalist - was born in Shavely, Russia on June 12, 1871 and died in New York City on April 5, 1924. He immigrated to New York City in 1890 and then, from 1898 to 1901, Brenner was in Paris studying art. He was a pupil of Louis Oscar Roty (1846-1911) and, at the Academie Julian, he studied with Peuch, Verlet, and Dubois. Brenner's address in 1918 was 18 East 8th Street, New York City.

Success came to Brenner often after his Paris training. He was a member of the National Sculpture Society, 1902; the New York Architectural League, 1902; the National Arts Club; and the American Numismatic Society. Brenner's exhibitions and awards were plentiful: a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition, 1900; an honorable mention at the Paris Salon, 1900; a bronze medal at the Panama- American Exposition in Buffalo, NY, 1901; a silver medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, MO, 1904; a gold medal at the Universal Exposition in Brussels, Belgium, 1910; a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, CA, 1915; the J. Sanford Saltus silver medal for the American Numismatic Society's achievement in medallic art, 1922; the National Sculpture Society; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Some of the many portrait plaques include: James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Carl Schurz; Collis P. Huntington; Fridtjof Nansen; J. Sanford Saltus; Washington Irving; George Washington; John Paul Jones; and Abraham Lincoln. He did work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Paris Mint; the Luxembourg in Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA; the New York Historical Society; and Clark University in Worcester, MA.

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