. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ''-uiuluu**^*'' Fig. 6o.â, Louis L duublr laler, 1848 "' (Div. of Numismatics photo) \elopnient of his future career. After six months he went to Paris for further studies and tlien to Rome. The world-famous gem engraver (iiuseppi Girometti iMtroduced him to the art of cameo-cutting. ^L^nv gems and especially a caineo representing Bellerojjhon and Pegasus are evidence of Voigt's exceptional skill in this art. His special aptitudes soon found general recognition and even Albert Thorwaldsen acknowledged his w'ork. Endorsed by the
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ''-uiuluu**^*'' Fig. 6o.â, Louis L duublr laler, 1848 "' (Div. of Numismatics photo) \elopnient of his future career. After six months he went to Paris for further studies and tlien to Rome. The world-famous gem engraver (iiuseppi Girometti iMtroduced him to the art of cameo-cutting. ^L^nv gems and especially a caineo representing Bellerojjhon and Pegasus are evidence of Voigt's exceptional skill in this art. His special aptitudes soon found general recognition and even Albert Thorwaldsen acknowledged his w'ork. Endorsed by the great Danish artist, Voigt was given the assignment to engrave the prize medal for the Accademia Tiberina, which he later joined as a member. Attracted by Voigt's fame as an outstand- ing engraver, the art-loving King Louis I of Ba\aria in 1829 appointed him first engraver at the Munich mint. During \'oigt's activity at this mint, he produced a brilliant series of coin dies for the historic double talers (fisj;. 60) of the Wittelsbach king.'''- Other Fig. 61.âGreecf., Otto L 5 drachma!, 1833 'â '^ (Div. of .Xumismatics photo) assignments for foreign countries, as the beautiful gold and silver coins for Otto I of Greece (fig. 61), a task he executed durina; his stay at the Munich mint, gave his name international renown. In 1857 he accepted an invitation of Pope Pius IX to work per- manently at the Roman mint. He settled in Rome and for almost fifteen years his name appeared on all papal coins and on some of the medals. His days in his adopted country ended when he died suddenly in 1874 in Trieste while on a trip to Germany. Voigt joined the jiapal mint at the peak of his career, his name already world-famous. A well- rounded pers(jnality, molded in the schools of the great masters of his time, he was, nevertheless, an outsider for the Italians, a stranger to their tradition. But he bowed before the ancient civilization and submitted to the rule of traditional papal coin eng
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