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I. W. Loewenbach

I. W. Loewenbach was a Jewish medalist in Munich who was active from the 1820s through the 1860s. He created medals on Bavarian nationalist themes, including the inauguration of the statue Bavaria in Munich (1850), the Seventh Centenary of Munich (1858), and the fiftieth anniversary of the October Festival in Munich (1860).

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Medal from Dedication of the Munich Synagogue in 1826

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I. W. Loewenbach’s medal commemorating the dedication of the new synagogue in Munich (1826) is among the earliest German synagogue medals. On one side of the medal, one sees the façade of the…