Horst Hahne PSM (born 1940 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Nazi Germany), is a German-born Australian sculptor, medallist and designer.[1]

Life

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He started school after World War II, and got his school certificate in 1955. He began his apprenticeship in typographic art & hand engraving in the same year at Ludwig & Mayer, an old established German type foundry in Frankfurt am Main. He also did part-time studies of typographic design. After finishing his apprenticeship as a hand engraver in 1958 Horst Hahne migrated to Australia in 1959.

From 1959 to 1965, he lived in Adelaide. In 1965, Hahne moved to Canberra, to work in the Australian Public Service at the Royal Australian Mint, as a hand-engraver of coin and medal dies.[2] From 1975 to 1983 he studied part-time figure & portrait drawing at the Canberra School of Art.

In 1996, he received the Public Service Medal, a civil decoration awarded to Australian public servants for outstanding service.[3]

After his retirement in 1998, Horst Hahne PSM continues to live in Canberra.

Work

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Notes

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  1. ^ Hahne's CV of 1998 in: World of coins , retrieved on 4 December 2013
  2. ^ Coin Designers: Horst Hahne, 13 June 2009, archived from the original on 28 December 2013
  3. ^ "Horst Hahne, coin engraver, Royal Australian Mint in: Museum Victoria, retrieved on 4 December 2013". Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  4. ^ Hahne's CV of 1998 in: World of coins , retrieved on 4 December 2013