Lot 4091: Professor Kurt Schmid-Ehmen (1901 - 1968)

a bronze bust of the pianist and composer Josef Pembaur (1875-1950)
Dark bronze head with high forehead and delicate facial features, signed "Sch. E.", mounted on a grey, vividly structured stone plinth, overall height 38 cm. Also a bronze portrait plaque of Pembaur with Schmid-Ehmen's signature and the inscription "Dresden April-Mai 1931", diameter 11.5 cm. With an official letter of purchase for a Pembaur portrait bust from 30th October 1940 by Gauleiter Adolf Wagner, a b/w picture of the bust and a b/w picture showing the artist at work on a clay model of the head, also a trimmed print of the bust hand-signed "Schmid-Ehmen" (1932), a list of Josef Pembaur's works and his book "Von der Poesie des Klavierspiels" (1911).
Prof. Kurt Schmid-Ehmen, the "Eagle Maker", is considered to be the designer of the Reichs-Eagle and the Eagle Emblem of the national socialist party. He studied at the art academies of Leipzig and Munich, became Bernhard Bleeker's master pupil and received first acclaim for several busts, among them the work described above portraying Pembaur, the teacher of concert pianist Hetty Haelssig (who became Schmid-Ehmen's wife).
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