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March 2022 Auction Day 1
Lot 600:
Adolf Hitler Larger than Lifesize Bronze Bust by Fritz Von Graevnitz (1892-1959). It is a veteran bring back and sits on its original base which is always a plus as most do not and has been in private hands since acquired many years ago. Very few were cast (probably in the single digits) and if they were sold they certainly were not cheap as the casting and finish are over the top, even the Breker made busts do not compare.Graevenitz, a WWI veteran studied fine arts at the Academy of fine Arts in Stuttgart in the immediate postwar and his AH bust shown here was featured in 1935 at a show in Stuttgart hosted by Joseph Goebbels. In 1937 he was appointed as a teacher in the Stuttgart Academy and the year after director. His status within the N.S movement as an artist allowed him to have many works featured in the Munich House of Arts during the Great German Art exhibitions as well as in Vienna in 1943 for Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich. After his death in 1959 the Graevenitz Museum was founded by his wife in 1971 and still operates today.This bust measures in at a total height of 16.5 inches and the original base is a green marble that is 3 inches in height. There is an old support weld on the back of the plinth that looks like it was done around the time the bust was made.
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