355 Theodor Linz: Bronze Portrait of Magda Goebbels.
Bronze. Mounted on a granite base. On the plinth artist's signature: "T. LINZ 38".
Height with base: 40 cm.
Professor Theodor Linz (born 9 February 1886 in Fürth; died 24 July 1979 in Munich) was a sculptor from Fürth.
Theodor Linz was born on 9 February 1886 at Gartenstraße 17 in Fürth, the son of Nikolaus Linz, a metalworker and merchant from Fürth, and his wife Pauline, née Seifert. After finishing school, he first began his studies at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Nuremberg. From November 1908 he attended the sculpture course of Professor Balthasar Schmitt (1858 - 1942) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His brother Peter Linz studied painting. With the beginning of the First World War, Theodor Linz was drafted into the 12th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment in Neu-Ulm in October 1914 and then volunteered for the 1st Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment in Munich. As early as March 1915, however, he was discharged from military service as unfit. In 1917 he received the Rome Prize. During the National Socialist era, Theodor Linz exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich from 1939 to 1943. Furthermore, he produced commissioned works such as busts, shields, etc. for the National Socialists. His flat at this time was on the ground floor of a large Art Nouveau apartment building at Adelheidstraße 6 in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich.