Lot 8180

Description

Certified copy of his birth certificate from 1901 (issued in Torgau, 1935). Marriage certificate from the Munich Civil Registry Office, dated February 3, 1936. Signed “Design for an urn [...] for Sturmhauptführer Wilhelm Löw”: a pencil drawing on A4 paper featuring a black-and-red letterhead (“Kurt Schmid-Ehmen - Sculptor, Munich”); inscribed in ink by Schmid-Ehmen at the bottom edge with details such as “Ostfriedhof - Haus Urnenhalle Raum No. I Mitte 29” and “M 1-5,” along with the date and his autograph signature; various fee stamps from 1936 on the reverse. Nine sheets of blank letterhead (A4 size, post-1945). Also included is an A4 pencil sketch of a dinosaur skeleton. Among the more than 80 photographs of various formats (ranging from 6x6 cm to 24x18 cm, including contact prints) are very rare images: Schmid-Ehmen modeling portrait heads (including one of Gauleiter Adolf Wagner); the eagle created for the Paris World's Fair; numerous shots showing the fabrication of the colossal eagles and the swastika wreath for the Nuremberg Rally Grounds; the memorial for the fallen of November 9, 1923; and various sculptures, portrait heads, and other eagle figures. The collection includes some press photos and prints dating from the post-war period- though likely predating Schmid-Ehmen's death in 1968, with at least three items bearing Schmid-Ehmen's signature. An impressive collection; the studio photographs showing Schmid-Ehmen and workers assembling his monumental works, in particular, convey a unique sense of the works' enormous scale.

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