Vijfentwintigjarige viering van de onafhankelijkheid van België

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Schenking van mevrouw J.M. van Gelder-Nijhoff

Art Historical Context

Celebrate Belgium's young nation's milestone with Leopold Wiener's *Vijfentwintigjarige viering van dehankelijkheid van België*Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Belgian Independence), a finely struck medal from 1855. Crafted just 25 years after Belgium's hard-won independence from the Netherlands in 1830, this piece captures the era's patriotic fervor. At 7.5 cm in diameter and weighing a substantial 170.14 grams, it served as a wearable or displayable token of national pride, likely distributed to commemorate the silver jubilee amid growing Belgian identity. Wiener, a skilled metalworker, employed...

About the Artist

Leopold Wiener · 1823–1891

Belgian, Venlo 1823–1891 Brussels