Kurt Schmid-Ehmen
Kurt Schmid-Ehmen (born October 23, 1901 in Torgau , † July 14, 1968 in Starnberg ) was a German sculptor .
He is considered the creator of the imperial eagle and National Socialist emblem. He studied at the Leipzig Academy with Adolf Lehnert and the Munich Academy, was a master student of Bernhard Bleeker and initially attracted attention with numerous busts, including one of the famous pianist Josef Pembaur , the teacher of the concert pianist Hetty Haelssig (later Schmid-Ehmen). His entry into the NSDAP in the early 1930s and his acquaintance with the architect Paul Ludwig Troost gave him his first orders and personal acquaintance with Adolf Hitler . So he designed the memorial to the fallen of 9 November 1923 in the Feldherrnhalle or the eagles to the party buildings in Munich, on the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg or the eagle relief Smoking Room in the New Reich Chancellery . Schmid-Ehmen made the bronze eagle, which is nine meters tall, for the German Pavilion at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris and received the Grand Prix de la Republique Française for it. Since 1936 he was a member of the Presidential Council of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts , and on January 30, 1937, Adolf Hitler appointed him professor. In 1938, Hitler bought his spear-bearer . In 1939 Schmid-Ehmen was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich with the bronze sculpture Female Figure . At the exhibition German artists and the SS in 1944 in Salzburg , the work "Girl with a branch" was exhibited by him.
Schmid-Ehmen was again artistically active in his new residence in Starnberg in 1948 and created portraits, tombs and figurative works. His late works include a mourning woman in 1961, a mother well commissioned for an old people's home in Schweinfurt, and a monumental phoenix with a 3.50 m wingspan and a height of 2.10 m, which he made as a ready-to-cast plaster model two months before his death in 1968 completed. The bronze was cast in 1990 under the supervision of his widow.
literature
- Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of the Fine Artists of the 20th Century . Volume IV, 1958, page 196.
Web links
- Search for Kurt Schmid-Ehmen in the German Digital Library
- Kurt Schmid-Ehmen 1901-1968, short biography of Schmid-Ehmens, omitting his Nazi burden
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 527.
- ↑ Kurt Schmid-Ehmen 1901-1968 ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmid-Ehmen, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1968 |
| Place of death | Starnberg |