Hedwig Maria Ley
Hedwig Maria Ley (born April 28, 1888 in Soest ; † December 12, 1978 there ) was a German sculptor .
Ley studied at the applied arts school in Munich and became a student of Hans Stangl from 1920 . She sympathized with the Nazi movement and was personally acquainted with Adolf Hitler . The Hitler bust made by her in 1932 was the first Hitler work of art authorized by the party. This bust has been reproduced many times. In the following years she made several works in bronze, including busts of Paul von Hindenburg and Gottlieb Daimler . Since 1932 she lived in Düsseldorf, where she shared the studio with Heinrich Moshage .
The holdings of the Würzburg municipal collection include a portrait of Hitler by Ley.
literature
- Gerhard Köhn: Soest in old pictures / 1919–1939, part 2: Soest in National Socialism . Westfälische Verlagsbuchhandlung Mocker & Jahn, 2006, ISBN 978-3879022144 .
- Barbara Köster: Life paths of Soest women in the 19th and 20th centuries: a reminiscence . Klartext, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0900-7 .
Individual evidence
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↑ Provincial Institute for Westfälische Landes- und Volkskunde: Westfälische Forschungen, Volume 53. Aschendorff, 2003, p. 374.
According to another source, she died in 1974: Stefan Reis: Ästhetik, hehr und hollow. In: Main-Echo , February 26, 2013. - ↑ Christine Jeske: The Hitler suspicion. In: Main-Post , May 26, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ley, Hedwig Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soest |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1978 |
| Place of death | Soest |