Lot 130
Two bronze eagles and three plaques, Karl Albiker (1878 Ühlingen - 1961 Ettlingen), Dresden, 1929-1943
Works of Art, Antiquities & Ancient Art | A109kua | Live auction | 1190 Lots
Description
Bronze. Two Eagles with outstretched wings. According to the catalogue raisonné, entered in a competition for the planned but unrealised university city of Berlin. Dimensions: 4 x 13.4 and 4.5 x 14 cm respectively. Figurative relief with riders. According to the catalogue raisonné, a draft for a building in Berlin. Length: 20 cm. Round plaque with sitting Athena, reverse inscribed “EHRENPREIS DER REICHSREGIERUNG KÜNSTLERBUND AUSSTELLUNG KÖLN 1929”. A further thin plaque with the same inscription but without Athena. Diameter: 9 cm each. All pieces illustrated in Karl Albiker Werkbuch, Verlag C.F. Müller Karlsruhe, nos. 181.1., 181.2, 222.1–2, 223.2. – Karl Albiker was a master student at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts. He continued his studies in Paris at the Académie Julian and under Antoine Bourdelle, who was the assistant of the sculptor Auguste Rodin, whom he greatly admired. In 1919 he was appointed Professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. During the 1920s he executed several commissions for the public area, in particular war memorials. On 1 May 1933 he joined the NSDAP. He contributed to the conversion of the Berlin Sportforum into the “Reichssportfeld” and in 1938 created the relief for the Dresden Luftgaukommando. In 1937 he participated in the preliminary selection for the Great German Art Exhibition with one work, and in 1943 took part in the exhibition Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich, and again in 1944 at the Great German Art Exhibition with a plaster model of the Luftgaukommando frieze.Condition: II + Questions about the lot?
