2834 - Franz Albermann (1877 Cologne – 1959 ibid.)

Franz Albermann (1877 Cologne – 1959 ibid.) Torchbearer Bronze, with a dark brown patina. Signed "Frz. Albermann Cöln" on the plinth. Polished shell limestone base. A male nude statue, likely created in the 1930s, in a heroic and dramatic pose; like the stylistically comparable, well-known “Torchbearer Column” by Hermann Scheuernstuhl (1936) at the Maschsee in Hanover—fully conforms to the Nazi artistic ideals of the “Third Reich”—holding the torch in his lowered left hand while raising his right hand in a salute. Franz Albermann was the son of the renowned sculptor Wilhelm Albermann (1835–1913), who had been making a name for himself as an artist since around 1903. From 1925 to 1934, Franz Albermann served as artistic director of the architectural and fine ceramics department “Ooms’sche Keramik” at the Kalscheuer company in Frechen near Cologne, creating, among other things, sculptural figures, architectural ceramics, and monuments; Since then, Albermann has worked as a freelance sculptor. Bronze height: 82 cm. Total height: 85.5 cm. Dark brown patinated bronze. Signed with the location “Cologne.” Limestone base.