On Saturday, February 12, 2000, the ANS will host the annual presentation of the J. Sanford Saltus Award for Signal Achievement in the Art of the Medal at 3 p.m. at our Audubon Terrace headquarters. The presentation will be accompanied by the annual Stephen K. Scher lecture on the Art and History of the Medal.

The Saltus Award recipient for 2000 is Bernd Göbel of Halle, Germany, long familiar to fans of the modern medal for his noteworthy contributions to FIDEM exhibits and his leadership in the East German, and now the German, FIDEM delegation. The Scher Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Wolfgang Steguweit, Chief Curator of the Numismatic Collection of the National Museum in Berlin, on the subject "Medallic Art in Germany during the 20th Century, in Particular the Work of Contemporary Artists."

At the meeting, the ANS will open a retrospective exhibit of Göbel’s medallic work. The ANS will also initiate a major exhibit on "The German Medal," which will run in the East Hall of the Audubon Terrace building through May 14. The exhibit will survey the art of the medal in Germany from the renaissance to the Second World War. In addition to pieces from our own strong holdings in this field, the exhibit will include works on loan from private collections, especially medals of Renaissance Germany.

In conjunction with the exhibits at the ANS, there will be an exhibit of contemporary German medallic art at the Medialia ... Rack and Hamper Gallery, 335 West 38th St., which will open on February 13.