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Dadler, Sebastian
(b Strasbourg, 6 March 1586; d Hamburg, 6 July 1657). German goldsmith and medallist. He trained as a goldsmith in France, then settled in Augsburg in 1610 and subsequently in Vienna in 1612, receiving the title of Imperial Court Goldsmith. In 1619 he was back in Augsburg; c. 1621 he entered the service of John-George I, Elector of Saxony, producing several very fine silver repoussé reliefs to his commission. However, Dadler demonstrated his greatest skill in the medals that he first produced after 1623, while in the Elector’s service in Dresden, for example John-George I and Magdalen Sibylla (1630). Around 1632 he returned to Augsburg and then Hamburg, settling in Danzig (now Gdansk) in 1634. From 1648 he was in Hamburg again, remaining there until his death. Dadler’s medals, often in large format, are characterized by powerful relief, with a strong plastic effect of a kind seldom found in the work of any other German medallist of the 17th century. As well as portrait medals, among which are several of Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, such as Riga Taken by Gustav Adolf (1621) and the Death of Gustav Adolf (1632), his oeuvre comprises medals for historical events, such as the Peace of Westphalia (1650–51), and medals with religious and allegorical motifs.
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