Artist: Kurt Schmid-Ehmen Size: 13.25″ (High), 12.5″ (Wide) This is a hand-made hammered copper eagle’s head. The eagle bears the typical stern expression as seen in Schmid Ehmen’s other works. The head is hollow, and presents a left-side view only, with two pieces of unworked copper attached at bottom rear. This head resembles all of […]
Desk Eagles
KSE Desk 3
Artist: Kurt Scmid-Ehmen Availability: Very rare (2 known examples) Size: 33cm (Height), 31cm (Depth), Plinth approx. 14.5cm x 9 cm Weight: 6.35 kg, Bronze (hollow cast) Nice representation of an eagle’s head. Example 1: Artist’s signature and year of manufacture “K. Schmid-Ehmen 38” on the cast plinth. Two threaded holes at the bottom for attachment […]
KSE Desk 2
Availability: Maker: Size: Wingspan approx.: Height approx.: Material: Description: Pics: Artist: Kurt Schmid-Ehmen Material: Bronze Size: 34-35.5cm (Height), 26cm (Eagle only) Weight: Approx. 8.3kg Note: These desk eagles are believed to be post-war casts by the artist albeit produced in very limited numbers in high quality and heavy bronze. Bronze eagle in the shape […]
KSE Desk 1
Artist: Kurt Schmid-Ehmen Size: 26cm (Eagle Height), 35cm (Total Height) Professor Kurt Schmid-Ehmen created this small sculpture in 1937. Designed in the shape of the original seven-meter-tall eagle sculpture at the Luitpold Arena on the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, this heavy silver-plated hollow-cast bronze eagle is from the estate of Reich Minister Hanns […]
KSE Desk Eagles
Artist: Kurt Schid-Ehmen
Pabst 5
Availability: Rare Artist: Josef Pabst Maker/Foundry: Bildgießerei Kraas Berlin –Kraas Bildguss Size: 3 sizes – Small, Medium & Large Material: Patinated Brass Description: This is an example of a ‘J.Pabst Luftwaffe Eagle’. It’s head faces right and has fully outstretched wings with the left talon clutching the mobile or ‘running’ swastika. Note the usual intricate chest pattern […]
Pabst 4
Artist: Josef Pabst Maker/Foundry: Bildgießerei Kraas Berlin –Kraas Bildguss Size: 11 inches tall, wing span is 10.25 inches wide. Description: Eagle perched on a high rock pedestal with outstretched wings. Solid dark brown patinated bronze, artist signed and foundry marking stamped onto the bronze just above the original marble base it is mounted on.
Flat wing
Availability: Uncommon About: These early eagles can be found as desk examples with folding desk-stands arms or on permanent desk mount base assemblies. They can also be found as wall mount eagles with hanging hooks often attached. As per the early ‘curved wing’ desk stand eagles, these were also used as pole-toppers with a double […]
Curly Sharp
Availability: Rare (<10 known) Material: Bronze with dark brown toning, protective varnish. Size: 26cm (High) by 30cm (Wide) Weight: 1.5kg There is a wall version of this style – refer here
Stand curly
Availability: Common This eagle style is one of the earliest designs and is heavily influenced by pre-1933 eagles of Germany. The style is the same as the one from the masthead of the party newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter. The eagles were cast in brass or bronze before the war, and because of wartime copper use restrictions, […]
