134 Max Bezner: Portrait Bust of Hermann Göring
Gold-patinated bronze. Artist's signature on the back of the neck: "Max Bezner 1937".
Inscribed on the plinth: "GUSS G: HEINZE BERLIN".
Realistic depiction of Göring (larger than life size) in Luftwaffe general's uniform with the Order Pour le Mérite.
Bayonet damage below the chin. Damages and traces of use according to age.
Height: 52 cm.
Max Bezner (* 1872 in Stuttgart; † 1939 in Berlin) was a German sculptor and landscape painter.
Bezner, in 1894 still a drawing teacher in Stuttgart, studied sculpture with Alfred Boucher in his artists' colony La Ruche in Paris. Afterwards he lived in Berlin where he worked as a sculptor and also painted landscapes. Among others, he portrayed Kaiser Wilhelm II, Otto von Bismarck, Paul von Hindenburg (erected in the Tannenberg Monument, among others), Erich Ludendorff, Karl Helfferich, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Gustav Roethe. He also created designs for the majolica workshop in Cadinen. In 1928 he delivered a marble replica of his portrait bust to the exiled emperor at Haus Doorn.In the same year he was made a knight of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern.
During the National Socialist era, he made portrait heads of Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring.
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