157 Ernst Seeger: Monumentale Porträt - Büste Adolf Hitlers.

Bronze. Signed "E. Seger" and stamped "LAUCHHAMMER BILDGUSS 21" on the back of the neck.

On a later wooden base with eagle and plaque with the inscription: "ADOLF HITLER by E. SEGER / FROM THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY DUSSELDORF".

Ernst Seger (* 19 September 1868 in Neurode, province of Silesia; † 12 August 1939 in Berlin) was a German sculptor and medallist. He attended the sculpture class of the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Breslau under Robert Härtel from 1884 and worked in the studio of Christian Behrens from 1886. From the late 1880s he received his first major commissions for monuments.

After working in Auguste Rodin's studio in Paris in 1893 and 1894 he had his own studio in Berlin. In 1895 he created an Emperor Wilhelm monument for Glatz. Around 1900 he became popular for his Art Nouveau sculptures, especially female nudes. During the Empire as well as later during the National Socialist era, Seger was a respected artist. He created a bust of Adolf Hitler in majolica for the Staatliche Majolika-Manufaktur Karlsruhe. In 1938 he was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich with three bronze sculptures, including a ring-thrower.

In 1935 he created the sculpture Ganymede at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, USA for the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. The gravesite of Ernst Seger and his wife Rosina, who died in 1950, is located in the Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf.

Very imposing bronze bust and excellently suited for a museum exhibition on the subject of the personality cult around Adolf Hitler.

Height: 47 cm ( with base 59 cm).

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