Anton Buschelberger

Type: Sculptor and Designer Born: 9/9/1869 Eger (Germany, now Czech Republic) Death: 3/7/1934 (Dresden, Germany – His grave can be found in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden)   Anton Büschelberger was most active in the 1920s. He specialised in bronze and his subjects were mostly animals and birds. He studied painting at the artistic metropolis of Munich […]

Josef Pabst

Type: Sculptor and Designer Born: July 11, 1879 (Koblenz) Death: January 6, 1950 (Adenau), His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 31). Also known as Joseph Pabst or Jakob Joseph Pabst. Josef Pabst designed a wide variety of eagles in the 1920’s and during the Third Reich period – these include the wide-wing political example that is most […]

Joseph Wackerle

Type: Sculptor Birth: May 15, 1880 Death: March 20, 1959 He was educated at the School of Applied Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. At 26, he was appointed artistic director of the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory in Munich. From 1913 to 1917 he worked as a teacher at the Museum of Decorative Art in Berlin. He became a lecturer […]

Paul Troost

Type: Architect Birth: August 17, 1878 (Elberfeld) Death: January 21, 1934 (Munich) Paul Ludwig Troost became Hitler’s foremost architect (succeeded by Albert Speer) whose neo-classical style was for a time the official architecture of the Third Reich. He planned and built many state and municipal edifices throughout Germany. Both Paul Ludwig Troost and Albert Speer are […]

Kurt Schmid-Ehmen

Type: Sculptor Birth: October 23, 1901 Death: 14 July, 1968       Works: Desk Eagles Desk Award Post War Desk Eagles Style 3 Style 4 Style 5 Felderrnhalle Mahnmal Fuhrerbau and NSDAP Admin building eagles House of German Art entrance eagle KSE Bowl Königsplatz flag pole eagles Paris Expo eagle Reichskanzlei wall signs Reichskanzlei […]

Walter E. Lemcke

Type: Sculptor Birth: 19 Aug 1891 Death: 1955       Works: Tempelhof Roof Eagle Ministry of Aviation Column Eagles Useful Links: Wikipedia An example below is of ‘Einer der Adler für ein Dienstgebäude in Berlin‘ (‘Eagle for a public office building in Berlin‘). Iron cast, created in 1937. Height 2,30 meter, wide 2,40 meter. […]

Artists

The following is a list of many third reich artists and sculptors. Anton Buschelberger Anton Henn Barbara Von Kalckreuth Bergmann Fritz von Graevenitz Hans Adametz Josef Pabst Joseph Wackerle K. Hufnagel Kurt Schmid-Ehmen Max Esser Otto Schmidt-Hofer Paul Ludwig Troost P. Scheer Richard Klein Rudolf Hofer Rudolph Menshiga Walter Lemcke Wilhelm Gösser