352 Emil Hub: Bronce Bust of Adolf Hitler
Bronze, mounted on a marble base. Artist's signature on the back of the neck: "EMIL HUB".
On the plinth foundry stamp: "Guss A. KOMO SOHN FEM".
Emil Hub (* 2 February 1876 in Frankfurt am Main; † 18 December 1954 ibid.) was a German sculptor.
Hub first studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Frankfurt am Main, later also in Paris and Berlin. He was a pupil of Paul Wallot, among others. From 1906 he worked as a freelance sculptor in Frankfurt am Main and in 1921 he was a teacher there at the Städelschule, where Ernst August von Mandelsloh was one of his pupils. He mainly made busts in marble or bronze. Hub was represented at all the Great German Art Exhibitions in Munich from 1937 to 1944, except in 1941. Among others, he exhibited a bronze bust of Hitler in 1938, a marble bust of Irmgard von Opel in 1942, a bust of Adam Opel in 1943 and a bust of the SA leader Adolf Beckerle in 1944. His bust "Museum Director Weimar", exhibited in 1939, was acquired by Dr Joseph Goebbels.
Expressive depiction of the Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler and excellently suited for a scientific exhibition on the subject of the Führer cult in the Third Reich.
Height with base: 50 cm.