Magnificent Bronze of Saint George and the Dragon (Item KSTATUES 5-1; FRAN 3-12)

PRICE: SOLD

Statue of Otto Leopold V. Bismark (Item KSTATUES 5-2)

PRICE: SOLD

PRICE: SOLD

DESCRIPTION: This is a subject ever poplar and revered by Europeans, German, Russian, English, Scottish and a host of others. These people equated Saint George with bravery, loyalty and patriotism.  He represented the noble knight errant, true to his cause and courageous enough to do battle with the dark side represented by the Dragon or Serpent. Certain races and creeds have alternatively embraced the dragon or reptile as their talisman and identified with it and so it was and is down through history.  This is a small but magnificent bronze artistic study of the legend.  Some of the worlds finest bronze statuary was done in the miniature.  The sculpture is about 5 inches high and the wooden base is about 2 ½ inches high. The piece is signed and we make it out to be to I. Curts, an Austrian artist of fame who is noted for his small, decorative and utilitarian pieces. The dates we find for him are 1895-1929.  But for some reason, numerous art connoisseurs believe that Curts was a pseudonym for Carl Kauba. The statue certainly shows the detail and masterful sculpture of Kauba’s work. References and other pictured works of this artist are shown on numerous pages of the encyclopedia of bronzes and sculptures 1800-1930 assembled by Harold Berman. The measurement from the horse's tail to his snout is about 3 inches.  The sculpture is in very good condition and just about perfect.  The detail is astoundingly good.  The Knight wears the typical armor of the 11th century with a helmet from which a dragon perches.  This is an exciting art piece and is very reasonably priced.  This is a museum quality sculpture and should be cased in a glass display case with lights shining upon it all by itself – it is absolutely that good!

PRICE: SOLD

Austrian Bronze Statue of Saint Michael Guarding the Austrian Border (Item KSTATUE 5-5 & WWI 12-1 & IMP 1-2, BRONZEMET 1-6)

DESCRIPTION: This is a magnificent bronze statue of the Patron Saint of Imperial Austria armed with sword and shield.  He stands defiant and steadfast as he guards the area known as the “Isonzo” named for the Isonzo River that runs from the Gulf of Trieste through Italy and Slovenia and joins with the Sola and Idrija Rivers as it ambles toward Austria. The battles of the Isonzo were a series of 12 battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in World War One.  They were fought along this river on the Eastern sector of the Italian front between June 1915 and November 1917.  Most of the battles were fought on the territory of modern Slovenia and the remainder in Italy. During the war the Isonzo valley was part of the Alpine sector of the Italian Front, along which the armies of Italy and Austro-Hungary clashed. During World War One the sixty miles long river ran almost entirely inside Austro–Hungary in parallel to the border with Italy. There is a narrow corridor between northern Italy and central Europe. This corridor is also known as the “Ljubijana Gate.”  The Italian army wanted to break through this passage in order to penetrate into central Carniloa and then on to Stynia to the heart of Austria. The area between the northernmost part of the Adriatic Sea and the sources of the river Soca thus became the scene of twelve successive battles with the rest of the mountainous 400  mile long front almost everywhere dominated by Austro-Hungarian troops. The Isonzo was the practical area for Italian military operations during the war. The Austrians had fortified the mountains ahead of the Italian long expected entry into the war on May 23rd, 1915.  The details of the battles are available on the internet; we won’t go into further description here. Fratricidal War at its Most Heinous. Despite the huge effort and resources poured into the continuing Isonzo struggle the results were invariably disappointing and without real tactical merit, particularly given the geographical difficulties that were inherent in the campaign. Cumulative casualties of the numerous battles of the Isonzo were enormous.  Half of the entire Italian War casualty total some 300,000 - 600,000 were suffered along the Isonzo. Austro-Hungarian losses while by no means as numerous were never the less high at around 200,000 of an overall total of around 1.2 million casualties.  The statue stands today as a memorial to the brave Austrian soldiers who died in those twelve battles as defenders of their sacred fatherland the figure of Saint Michael depicted with the wings of an archangel.  His sword is the wavy blade type and his shield has the double headed eagle of the Hapsburg Empire.  The bronze figure stands at the peak of a simulated mountain. This model mountain is formed from actual Austrian granite from the area of Austria where such stone is quarried.  The realistic tone is exemplified by this clever artistic touch. The whole of the sculpture in height including the granite base is 15 inches with the base being 6 inches high and Saint Michael being 12 inches.  The sculpture and base are in A-1 perfect condition. Very dramatic looking and noble in its concept. This is one of the most meaningful art statues we have ever presented to serious Germanophiles worldwide. By the way, we might need a St. Michael or St. George at our border in the near future to guard against the Dragons and Devils from south of that besieged border. Let’s support Arizona! In Hoc Signo Vinces!!!

PRICE: SOLD

DESCRIPTION: This marvelous statue measuring 13 ½ inches high with a base 4 ½ inches square (length and depth) personifies the strength and determination of the “Deutscher Soldat” from the time of the battle of the Teutoberg Forest up through the pages of history and into the 2nd World War. The slogan that might go with this wonderful sculpture could be “Die Ganze Welt Gegen Uns”! The whole world against us! Yes, Germany in the embodiment of the Heilege Vaterland was always to protect Europe against the constant incursions from the east against the Magyars, Huns ,Goths, and Visagoths and even the moribund Roman Empire. The land of Germania and its Teutonic Volk took on all comers. It was no different in the 2nd World War when Germany with a few allies stood against the Maelstrom in what was a German led crusade to destroy the beast of Bolshevism before all of Europe was disseminated by what President Regan later called the Evil Empire. Tthis was truly “evil personified! “ And in this author's perception, all the nations who joined in the fight to preserve communism and crush Germany were the acolytes of Stalin and Tito and obviously Satan*. (*Authors historic opinion.) The statue you see here tells of a saga that we have briefly touched upon in the forgoing narrative. As this Warrior stands naked before the world, the artist who sculpted him conveys in statuary the defeated yet proud and militant German soldier who wears the Stalhelm (steel helmet) and makes ready the sword of Siegfried known as Nothung for the next time the call of the besieged Fatherland is heard. We readily admit that all of this will only be understood and honored by Germanophiles, but we can envision all the deep meaning that this artistic masterpiece conveys. Nothing else that we have ever offered or seen offered comes up to the artistic expression and important significance of this prodigiously important piece. Its historical importance is magnificently conveyed. This statue which may actually be unique; it is a presentation piece to an officer who was “Beirat” (military advisor) to the Third Ulan battalion in Berlin. This wonderful gift was from the Kameradschaft (comrades) and presented to him for his true service to the Batt. From 1920 to 1940 this illustrious unit was the Third Guard Uhlan regiment and in WW 2 the Uhlans became armored divisions and covered themselves with glory in the early campaigns in Poland and the military engagements against France and Russia. The sculpture weighs about 14 pounds with the marble plinth and is in perfect condition with a gorgeous patina throughout. Deutschland Uber Alles !  

PRICE: SOLD

DESCRIPTION: This has to be one of the neatest WWI German novelties of the Imperial Era we have ever seen or heard of. This Pickelhaube wearing Prussian soldier is a ‘Bandsman’ and “what a bandsman.” He is playing the “Grosse Trommel” (Grand Drum) and the large cymbal at the same time. He is in full Prussian Landser uniform with the ‘Birds nest” or swallow tail epaulettes on his shoulders and the special three button style cuffs that are sported on the dress tunic. He wears the Mauser 98 bayonet with portepee. The absolute most unique thing about “Fritz’ is found in his moving parts -- when the arm holding the drum stick is depressed downward, he raises the cymbal and brings it clanging down when the drumstick is returned to its original position. Of course when the cymbal is raised the ashtray is exposed.  Behind ‘Fritz’ is a small plinth where a pack of matches would be mounted. The figure is mounted on a base that is made to look like a brick street. Under the base are letters, D.R.G.M. (German registered patent) and another word is found by the base fixtures. It could be Mustersch.?  The figure with base stands about 8 inches tall. The drum is about 2 ½ inches long. The cymbal is about 2 inches in diameter. We at Germania are particularly proud to offer this great figure to the collecting pubic and at the same time in hopes he doesn’t go out too soon, he looks great on our desk. In all probability ‘Fritz’ was a table piece in an officer’s Mess Hall.  He is certainly not a toy. 

PRICE: SOLD

DESCRIPTION: This is a great little sculpture mounted on a marble base. It is highly detailed and an excellent likeness of the Great War leader who later became the first post-war president of Germany. He later appointed Adolf Hitler Reich’s Chancellery. There is a narrative about this much loved and respected leader in several of our pages and the Kaiser Reich section on bronzes and statuary page 4 at KSTATUE 4-2 and also on the Third Reich page 14-1. He was known as the “Father of the Fatherland” and Germany’s greatest war hero. Please do read about him on our pages at the WWI section. This is a fine period bust and a great historically important item. Small but dramatic! The bust with its plinth stands 4 3/4th inches high and the bust alone is 2 1/2 inches high; it is signed Burajze. The medals and birds nest shoulder boards and stand out in amazing detail and the face is remarkably life-like. The artist certainly captured the spirit of the grand old Marshal.

PRICE:  SOLD

DESCRIPTION: This is a bronze sculpture by famed Paul Schmidt Felling 1835 - 1930. He was one of the most famous artists doing human figures in his time. Farmers, children, workers, soldiers and some animal figures, he was a very prolific artist and was most known for his very dramatic figures but also his Volkskunst(Art of the People). This example is a patriotic theme with a soldier of the Fatherland in the pose of officer holding the schwarz, weiss, rot banner as he advances with drawn sword. The officer seems to be rallying the troops for a charge against the enemy. The banner is seen to be divided into sections that, were they in color, they would be the national colors of black, white and red. We have seen a larger version of this Felling statue in a German art museum and it had the name ‘Vorwarts’ or ‘Forward.’ Certainly an appropriate title for this extremely melodramatic figure that is so striking and full of meaning to the Germanophiles among us.

PRICE: SOLD

Statue of Centaurs from Greek Mythology from the Hermann Goring Collection (Item KSTATUE 5-10, GOR 11-2 & BRONZE 1-1)

DESCRIPTION: This is a very rare and beautiful bronze statue by C.B. Albert a famed artist who was the creator of many fine statuary figures. The bronze depicts the famed Greek mythological figure Centaurs with a captured young virgin female. The bronze cast is of the finest quality imaginable in a metal sculpture.

The Legend:   Centaurs was the Father of the race of mythological beasts known as the Centaurs of Ixionidae. The Centaurs are half man, half horse.  They were said in Greek mythology to be wild, savage and lustrous.  They were widely known for their extreme drunkenness as it is said that the Centaurs could not hold their liquor at all, and were drunk all the time.  So you see an example of this drunken lust in the depiction we offer of Centaurs with the “damsel in distress”. So realistically portrayed that after viewing it for a time you will start to believe in mythological beasts. This is a big and very heavy bronze.  It stands 21 inches high including its beautiful three piece marble base that is a work of art in itself.  Absolutely stunning!  The center portion of the statue is about 18 inches from the front hoof to the end of the tail.  The statue actually was from Castle Veldenstein, Goring’s estate where he had moved his innumerable treasures near the end of the war.  But, we do not add a nickel to the price because of this.  The statue stands on its own merit as a meaningful masterpiece of the sculptor’s art. We have managed to procure many things from the Goring’s estate, Veldenstein, and we have elsewhere on the site explained how this came about but again this is in fact a Göring possession but not sold based upon this fact.  You must appreciate this statue for what it is artistically, and although we know it would have been the art most enjoyed and collected by ‘Unser Hermann’ (Our Hermann as he was called by the German populace).  It has no presentation plaque or any other proof of his ownership.  It is exactly what his artistic preference would be in fact we also like it very much. We have been known to be the web site that has featured some of the best and most important examples of this ancient art form.  You can read much more about Centaurs by putting the name into Google and the Wikipedia explanation will come up and it is quite informative on the subject. You can also see the painting from which this bronze was depicted.

PRICE: SOLD

DESCRIPTION: Born in 1797, he was probably the most beloved of the German emperors, and memorials to his memory are found all over Germany. Even in his lofty position, his kindness of heart even toward the humblest servant could not be excelled but he was a soldiers, soldier from top to bottom possessing all the virtues of that class. He had a high sense of duty, courage and exactness in the smallest details. Like his great ancestor Fredrick II (“The Great”) he regarded himself as the first servant of his country. Significant are his words when asked at the end of his life to stop work for a while on account of his weakness, he replied “I have no time to rest.” He was the indispensible cog in the wheel of Empire along with his faithful friend and councilor, Prince Otto Von Bismarck in building the new German empire after he and his generals crushed the French army in the Franco-Prussian war. Much more about this great monarch can be found on the internet. 

The bust is in a terra cotta material and it is unbelievably lifelike. It stands about 5 inches high and is in fine condition but with some of the paint on the tunic and plinth worn here and there. The face is so fine and realistic you would think he could breathe. There is a mark on the back of his tunic that spells depo.  This could refer to the artist or the issuing company. A great little sculpture of a grand and great ruler.

PRICE: $225.00

DESCRIPTION: This is a beautiful large bronze plaque that is mounted on its original wooden base piece.  It depicts Kaiser Franz Josef, the Hapsburg monarch who was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Grand Duke of Cracow from 1845 until his death in 1916.  He had many tragedies in his life including the suicide of his son the Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889 and the heinous murder of his wife the Empress Elizabeth in 1898. He became the war time partner of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the Great War that followed the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne. This activated a system of alliances which resulted in World War One.

Franz Josef died on 21 November 1916 after ruling his domains for almost 68 years.  He was a much beloved ruler who enjoyed the love and adoration of his people.  One of the few pleasures and pastimes that this royal personage ever afforded himself was hunting and fishing. He was an avid hunter and indulged in this sport on every occasion that he possibly could.  He had several hunting lodges in the Austrian Alps and the Wienerwald (Vienna forest). This plaque depicts him in his jagertracht (hunting garments) with the jaunty hat with partridge brush. This is a very exact likeness of the grand old emperor.  A piece of magnificent bronze art.  It is mounted nicely on a beautiful wood base measuring 21 ½ inches by 17.  The actual bronze plaque measures 11x15 inches. Below the bust portrait of Kaiser Franz is the Hapsburg crown surrounded by laurel leaves on one side standing for empire and on the other side you can see pine branches and pine cones (hunting décor).  There is a signature of the artist F. Krebs 1908 and there is also a mark of the bronze castor that looks like it indicates a patent protection with numbers (Shutz = protected!). This is an absolutely beautiful art piece and is truly rare and important to the history of our times

PRICE: $1,850.00

Bronze Statue of Saint Hubertus by Franz Sautner (Item KSTATUE 5-13, BRONZEMET 1-2)

PRICE:   $2,850.00

Kaiser Wilhelm Equestrian Statue (Item KSTATUE 5-14, BRONZEMET 2-9)

PRICE:   $6,950.00

Tray Commemorating Kaiser Wilhelm I in Berlin (Item KSTATUE 5-14a, BRONZEMET 2-9a)

PRICE:   $145.00

“Der Sieg!” (The Victory!) (Item KSTATUE 5-15, BRONZEMET 2-11)

PRICE:   $2,850.00

Massive Equestrian Bronze Statue of the 5th Regiment Prussian Uhlans (Item KSTATUE 5-16; WWI 12-15; BRONZEMET 3-3)

DESCRIPTION: This is a magnificent bronze depiction of a mounted horseman of the Fifth Uhlan Regiment of the Kaisers 3rd Cavalry Division attached to the First German Army Command. They served with particular distinction in the Franco Prussian war and WW1.  Uhlans were light cavalry, actually Lancers, who fought with carbines, swords, and lances.  The title Uhlan was used by Lancer regiments in the Russian, Austrian and especially the Prussian armies.  Uhlans typically wore a double buttoned tunic (Kurta) with a colored panel at the front, a colored sash and a square topped Lancer cap (Czapka), also spelled chapka.  This cap was originally derived from a traditional design of the Polish civilian cap made more formal and stylized for military use.  Their Lances usually had small swallow tail pennants known as the Lance Pennon that was found just below the spearhead (see our pictures).  Prussian Uhlans distinguished themselves and fought bravely in the war against Napoleon.  In WW1 the Imperial German Army included 26 Uhlan regiments.  They all saw action while on duty at the first part of the war and their charge with lances struck fear in the hearts of the enemy since it has well been known that these were formidable warriors adept at warfare (up front and personal!).  Later in the second year of the war the Uhlan regiments were either dismounted to serve as cavalry rifle regiments in the trenches of the western front or transferred to the eastern front where primitive conditions made it still possible for horse cavalry to play an effective role.  In WWII a popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged and were annihilated by German tanks during the 1939 campaign; this arose from the misreporting (both intentional and unintentional) of the charge at Krojanty on 1 September when two squadrons of Polish 18th Lancers armed with lances and sabers were met in combat by German cavalry led by Harry Von Johnston in what was the last charge of German cavalry with sabre.  The Poles were dispersed and defeated by Germans who rode one last time in the spirit of the Old Prussian Uhlans.  This is a little known fact of history that for the most part has remained hidden for all these years.

The bronze statue is accurate in every detail and prodigiously dramatic in its heroic depiction. It is a huge and heavy sculpture done in the finest mode of German bronze art. It measures 26 inches high from the bottom of the base to the top of the Uhlan Czapka.  The horse is 22 inches long from tail to muzzle.  The base is measured at 19 ½ x 7 inches.  The sculpture is signed by Leon Mignon (1847-1898), a sculptor from Brussels, Belgium. He studied under the sculptor Prosper Drion (1822–1906) at the Académie in Liège from 1857 to 1871. He was a particular admirer of the anecdotal sculpture of Léopold Harzé (1831–1893). His vocation as a sculptor of animal subjects began in Rome, where he studied on a grant from 1872 to 1876. He exhibited in Ghent (1874) and on several occasions in Paris (where he lived from 1876 to 1882) at the Salon des Artistes Français. He achieved prominence at the exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris with his bulls fighting in the Roman countryside (Brussels, mus. a. mod.). In 1880–81, he shared a studio with the Belgian sculptor Paul DeVigne, whom he had met in Rome. Mignon’s bull tamer (liège, parc avroy) took the gold medal at the Salon of 1880. In 1882 he settled in Brussels and in 1888 produced the labors of Hercules reliefs for the stairway of the palace of Charles de Lorraine (now part of the Bibliothèque Royale Albertier). He sculpted several historical figures for the provincial law courts and was an astute philosopher of his time. In 1892 he sculpted many subjects for the Université de Liège. He excelled as a sculptor of animal subjects. Mignon occupies a leading place in Belgian realist art. He also modeled busts of Belgian personalities as well as a statuette of the Belgian painter Hubert Bellis; figurines of workers, soldiers from the Belgian regiments (c. 1889), and even an equestrian statue of a Prussian Uhlan, France’s enemy in the 1870 war; and a statue of Leopold in 1886 ( Brussels, mus. a. mod.). His works are preserved in the Musée de l’art Wallon, Liège, and the Musée d’Art Moderne, Brussels. He was completing a frieze for the Hôtel Somzée in Brussels when he died unexpectedly. He was an amazing artist and a cultured man of vision. A grand museum grade art piece personified and extraordinaire!  It is priced under market value for a sculpture as fine as this one is.  It is certain that one could not find any such dramatic artistic accomplishment to rival this one. Here he is! In all his Imperial glory.  Listen as you view him and perhaps, just perhaps, you will hear the strains of “Heil Dir im Seigerkranz” (Hail to thee in Victors Crown.) Deutschlands Helden Lebt in ewig leben!

PRICE: SOLD

The Kaiser's medals

The Kaiser

Hindenburg

Note the spurs

The dagger is place only
to assist viewer perspective.

Set of Fantastic Statues of Kaiser Wilhelm 2 and Field Marshal Hindenburg (Item KSTATUE 5-17; KTOY 1-11; WWI 12-16)

PRICE: SOLD

Statue of Prince Otto von Bismarck (Item KSTATUE 5-19; BRONZEMET 3-16)

PRICE: SOLD

Risqué Bronze Ashtray (Item KSTATUE 5-20; WWI 13-16)

PRICE: $100.00

Spectacular Golden Bronze Bust of Kaiser Wilhelm II by a Berlin Artist (Item KSTATUE 5-21; WILHELM 9-25; BRONZE 2-11)

PRICE: SOLD

Bronze Sculpture of Kaiser Wilhelm II (Item KSTATUE 5-22; WILHELM 9-30)

PRICE: $950.00

Set of Busts of the German Royal Family (Item KSTATUE 5-23; BRONZEMET 4-13)

PRICE: $499.00 for the set

Busts of Otto von Bismarck and General Helmuth von Moltke, Chief of General Staff (Item KSTATUE 5-24; BRONZEMET 4-14)

PRICE: $125.00 for each

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