GERMAN ART SERIES


This early 1940's postcards series from "Film Foto Verlag" featured fourteen German sculptors.  I believe it to be a continuation of the Michelangelo series of cards, starting from where that series left off at #19 and continuing to #118.  I think the first 18 cards of this series were added at a later date.  Those first cards are more difficult to find and the printing on the back is different.  Card #18 appears to be from a different publisher altogether, Kunstverlag Herbert Sala.  This is just speculation on my part,though.  They were also released in a larger art print size 20 CM x 30 CM, and also perhaps in a book.

The following sculptors and the number of their works featured on the cards are:

40   Arno Breker
29   Hans Haffenrichter
10   Richard Scheibe
 9   Fritz Klimsch
 5   Jakob Wilhelm Fehrle
 2   Hanns Anker
 2   Robert Stieler
 2   Rudolf Agricola
 1   Paul Bronisch
 1   Wilhelm Tank
 1   Adolf Abel
 1   Joseph Thorak
 1   Max Esser
 1   Harry Christlieb

In addition to the sculptor cards, the art series includes eight works by Rudolf Krampe in the series 'Land am Strom'. The exact format is unknown, but they appear to be pen and ink drawings.

These cards were published after the Aryanization of "Ross Verlag" when the company was then under the control of the National Socialist goverment.  These artists were considered official artists of the Third Reich.  Arno Breker was Hitler's favorite sculptor, and received the most work.  It is said that 90% of Breker's public art survived the war; however, the Allies destroyed it when they arrived.  Having been a member of the Nazi Party, Breker struggled to regain his reputation after the war, but remained controversial.  He died in 1991.

Many of the artists were commissioned to sculpt members of the Nazi party such as Hitler and Göring.

The sculptors were on the Gottbegnadeten-Liste (God-gifted list), a 36 page list assembled by Hitler and Goebbels of artists considered important to Nazi culture.  Being on the list exempted you from military service, at least until the end of the war when the Volkssturm was instituted, which force inscripted all able bodied men between the ages of 16 and 60 into the military.  Alfred Abel was one of those drafted into the Voklssturm.  He went missing in 1945.

Biographical information found through Wikipedia.

Titles of the cards, and some of the images that I was not able to find from postcards, I found here.



1
  Fritz Klimsch:
"Die Woge"

 
2
  Fritz Klimsch:
"Stehendes Mädchen"

 

3
  Richard Scheibe:
"Hockende"

 
4
  Hans Haffenrichter:
"Eurydike"

 

5
  Hans Haffenrichter:
"Eurydike"

 
6
  Fritz Klimsch:
"Sinnende"

 

7
  Fritz Klimsch:
"Olympia"

 
8
  Fritz Klimsch:
"In Sonne und Wind"

 

9
  Fritz Klimsch:
"Jugend"

 
10
  Hans Haffenrichter:
"Eurydike"

 

11
  Hans Haffenrichter:
"Eurydike"

 
12
  Fritz Klimsch:
"Anadyomene"

 

13
  Unknown

 
14
  Unknown

 

15
  Unknown

 
16
  Joseph Thorak:
"Das Licht"

 

17
  Fritz Klimsch:
"Maja"

 
18
  Fritz Klimsch:
"Galathea"

 

19
  Arno Breker:
"Der Wager"

 
20
  Arno Breker:
"Berufung"

 

21
  Arno Breker:
Kopf der "Berufung"

 
22
  Arno Breker:
Anmut

 

23
  Arno Breker:
Kopf der "Anmut"

 
24
  Arno Breker:
"Psyche"

 

25
  Arno Breker:
Richard Wagner

 
26
  Arno Breker:
"Studie"

 

27
  Arno Breker:
"Opfer"

 
28
  Arno Breker:
"Kameraden"

 

29
  Arno Breker:
"Kameraden" (Ausschnitt)

 
30
  Arno Breker:
"Vergeltung"

 

31
  Arno Breker:
"Momumentalfigur"

 
32
  Arno Breker:
"Verwundeter"

 

33
  Arno Breker:
Ausschnitt: Verwundeter

 
34
  Arno Breker:
"Eos"

 

35
  Arno Breker:
"Bereitschaft"

 
36
  Arno Breker:
"Schreitende"

 

37
  Arno Breker:
"Der Künder"

 
38
  Arno Breker:
Psyche (Ausschnitt)

 

39
  Arno Breker:
"Die Wächter"

 
40
  Arno Breker:
Der Wächter (Ausschnitt)

 

41
  Arno Breker:
Die Knieende

 
42
  Arno Breker:
"Die Knieende"

 

43
  Arno Breker:
Wehrmacht

 
44
  Arno Breker:
Partei

 

45
  Arno Breker:
Der Zehnkämpfer

 
46
  Arno Breker:
Die Siegerin

 

47
  Unknown

 
48
  Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Sitzender Bär

 

49
  Unknown

 
50
  Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Sitzender Bär

 

51
  Harry Christlieb
Schuhschnäbel

 
52
  Robert Stieler:
Athlet

 

53
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
"Eurydike"

 
54
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
"Eurydike"

 

55
 Prof. Richard Scheibe:
Aufsteigende

 
56
  Adolf Abel:
Der Morgen

 

57
 Prof. Richard Scheibe:
"Hockende"

 
58
 Prof. Richard Scheibe:
Der Morgen

 

59
  Rudolf Agricola:
Sitzendes Mädchen

 
60
 Prof. Richard Scheibe:
Sinnende

 

61
  Prof. Richard Scheibe:
Flehende

 
62
  Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
"Der Klang"

 

63
  Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Der Klang

 
64
  Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Joh. Seb. Bach

 

65
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Riemenschneider

 
66
  Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Mozart

 

67
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Reichsmarschall Göring

 
68
 Prof. Jakob Wilhelm Fehrle:
"Mädchen aus dem Schwarzwald"

 

69
  Rudolf Agricola:
"Knabenkopf"

 
70
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
"Am Ziel"

 

71
 Prof. W. Tank (Wilhelm):
"Speerwerferin"

 
72
  Paul Bronisch:
"In Memoriam"

 

73
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
"Eurydike"

 
74
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
"Eurydike"

 

75
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
"Eurydike"

 
76
  Prof. Richard Scheibe:
Arbeiter

 

77
 Prof. Richard Scheibe:
Jüngling

 
78
 Prof. Richard Scheibe:
Der Denker

 

79
 Prof. Richard Scheibe:
Bogenschütze

 
80
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Schneeleopard

 

81
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Läufer

 
82
  Prof. Hans Haffenrichter: Bogenschütze

 

83
  Robert Stieler:
Faustkämpfer

 
84
  Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Seeadler

 

85
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Löwin mit Jungen

 
86
  Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Schwertträger

 

87
  Hanns Anker:
Der Morgen

 
88
  Hanns Anker:
Der Morgen

 

89
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Der Führer

 
90
  Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
"Eurydike"

 

91
 Prof. Jakob Wilhelm Fehrle:
"Julia"

 
92
  Jakob Wilhelm Fehrlea:
"Aphrodite"

 

93
 Prof. Jakob Wilhelm Fehrle:
"Aphrodite"

 
94
  Jakob Prof.Fehrle:
"Flötenspieler"

 

95
  Rudolf Krampe
1. Die Stadt

 
96
  Rudolf Krampe
2. Weg in den Wiesen

 

97
  Rudolf Krampe
3. Flußabwärts

 
98
  Rudolf Krampe
4. Der Strom

 

99
  Rudolf Krampe
5. Im Polder

 
100
 Rudolf Krampe
6. Unter weitem Himmel

 

101
  Rudolf Krampe
7. Im Winde

 
102
  Rudolf Krampe
8. Am Ufer

 

103
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Sitzender Jaguar

 
104
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
Liegender Leopard

 

105
  Prof.Max Esser:
Wellensittich

 
106
 Prof. Hans Haffenrichter:
"Drei Pferde"

 

107
  Arno Breker:
Flora

 
108
  Arno Breker:
Flora (Ausschnitt)

 

109
  Arno Breker:
Apoll und Daphne

 
110
  Arno Breker:
Kopf des Apoll
(Ausschnitt Apoll und Daphne)

 

111
  Arno Breker:
Kopf Der Daphne
(Ausschnitt Apoll und Daphne)

 
112
  Arno Breker:
Herold

 

113
  Arno Breker:
Herold

 
114
  Arno Breker:
Gerhard Hauptmann

 

115
  Arno Breker:
Du und Ich

 
116
  Arno Breker:
Demut

 

117
  Arno Breker:
Kopf der Demut

 
118
  Arno Breker:
Deumut (Ausschnitt)