351 Hans Schwegerle: Monumental Bronze Bust of Adolf Hitler.

Bronze. Without base. Signed on the left section of the neck: "H. Schwegerle 39". Damage and abrasions due to age.

Approx. dimensions 65 x 48 cm.

Hans Schwegerle (* 2 May 1882 in Lübeck; † 4 September 1950 in Munich) was a German sculptor and medallist.

Schwegerle was always represented at the Great German Art Exhibition from 1937 to 1944, except in 1942. Among the works exhibited were his bust of the Führer (1941), busts of Stefan George and Franz Ritter von Epp (1938), a bronze Goethe mask (1940), which Hitler acquired, the statues Erwachen (1937), Entfaltug (1940) and Melusine (1941), a fountain figure (1939), a portrait of a boy (1944) and plaques (1938, 1943).

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