130 - Two bronze eagles and three plaques, Karl Albiker (1878, Ühlingen – 1961, Ettlingen), Dresden, 1929–1943

Two bronze eagles and three plaques, Karl Albiker (1878, Ühlingen – 1961, Ettlingen), Dresden, 1929–1943 Bronze. Two eagles with outstretched wings. According to the catalog, a competition entry for the planned but never built University City of Berlin. Dimensions: 4 x 13.4 and 4.5 x 14 cm, respectively. Figurative relief depicting horsemen. According to the catalog, a design for a building in Berlin. Length: 20 cm. Round plaque depicting a seated Athena; reverse side reads “HONORARY PRIZE FROM THE REICH GOVERNMENT, KÜNSTLERBUND EXHIBITION, COLOGNE 1929.” Another thin plaque with the same inscription, but without Athena. Diameter: 9 cm each. All pieces are illustrated in Karl Albiker’s catalog raisonné, published by 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 an assistant to the sculptor Auguste Rodin, whom Albiker admired. He became a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1919. In the 1920s, he carried out several commissions for public spaces, particularly war memorials. On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP. He participated in the project to transform the Berlin Sportforum into the “Reichssportfeld” and created the relief for the Dresden Air District Command in 1938. In 1937, he participated in the preliminary selection for the Great German Art Exhibition with a work, and in 1943 he took part in the “Young Art in the German Reich” exhibition; in 1944, he participated once again in the Great German Art Exhibition with a plaster model of the Air District Command frieze. Condition: II +