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DESCRIPTION: This is a gorgeous oil painting of the Christ Child Market also referred to as the Weihnachts-markt (Christmas Market). In Germany the celebration of Christmas is simply magical -- it is like walking through the pages of Grimm’s fairy tales. Streets lit up by Christmas lights. The smell of roasted chestnuts and baked goods are carried in the pure crisp atmosphere and here is one celebration that goes back to the Middle Ages of German-speaking Europe. The Christmas Market is an event that has become world famous as a street market during the holidays associated during the four week Advent season, where traditional Christmas cookies as well as hot mulled wine are consumed gaily in the brisk cold. The very first Christmas market was held in Dresden, Germany in 1434 AD and currently attracts around 1.5 million visitors each year. The only year that it was not held was in 1946 because the beautiful city had been unmercifully and criminally bombed in February 1945 by the allies. This act of genocide and barbarism was against a completely defenseless city, one of the greatest cultural centers of Northern Europe. A half million people perished in what was the worst single event massacre of all time. Nuremberg was also mercilessly bombed.  Bomber Harris was so anxious to destroy this beautiful city that he picked a night with a clear moon light just like the night depicted in the painting to rain down death and destruction on Nuremberg. 6,000 Nuremberg residents were slaughtered, probably some of the folks depicted in the painting. Bomber Harris said in his report “A near perfect example of area bombing." But the ancient city pulled itself up by the bootstraps and survived -- a tribute to German resolve and tenacity.

Now, back to the painting. It measures 21 ¼ inches x 15 ¼ inches and in the frame it measures 26 ½ x 20. It was painted by Ludwig Mossler who lived in Rothenburg am Taube, a beautiful picturesque little town that fortunately was spared the maelstrom of bombing by the ‘Kulturtrager” (Bringers of Culture”).  Herr Mossler was an artist of great renown in the 20’s and 30’ and well into the 1940’s. He specialized in painting landscapes of the mid-Franconian area. The many paintings that he accomplished are both delightful and lifelike to an extreme noteworthy degree. To the person who savors realism, they could be called little masterpieces. In their own right, along with the painting, we offer a very nice gallery book showing about 15 of the other paintings done by this prolific artist. Many of Mossler's paintings were in the 1930’s featured on postcards published by the Liebermann Co. of Nuremberg and along with the painting and book we also have a very nice postcard showing this very painting. The book is entitled Frankische Stadtebilder (city pictures). Rothenburg Am Taube, Dinkelsbuhl, pictures of these two charming medieval towns are shown but most of the paintings depicted are of old Nuremberg. Interesting that the same market square pictured in our painting is shown in the summer time with the Schoner Brunner (Beautiful Fountain) and the Saint Sebalduskirche. The caption underneath mentions that this is the Adolf Hitler Platz. When we go to Nuremberg we call it that when speaking to other true Germans and Germanophiles. It was here that the Führer reviewed the SS, SA, NSKK, and Leibstandarte SS as they paraded along their way to the fields of the Reichsparteitag each year, Annual Party congress. This painting was purchased from a Munich art dealer. Third Reich art is to us the epitome of beautiful expression and when the U.S. Air Force exhibited their looted National Socialist art, hundreds of American citizens were heard to say “Well now that is art” and it certainly is! The garbage that is considered “modern art" today is putrid and vomit provoking in general. Here is a chance to indulge yourself with the chance to own a genuine unique piece of art from the greatest assemblage of real Deutschen Kunst. The group is comprised of the canvas, the book, and the postcard. By the way, did we mention the book is signed and dedicated by Frau Annalise Mossler and Ludwig Mossler himself in Rothenburg O.T. on January 8th 1941? It is written in English and presented to a Mister Kuse. The book and postcard were purchased separately but are included in our price. This painting is not only beautiful but very historically important as well.

PRICE: SOLD

DESCRIPTION: The statue is the Thorak sculpture by the title of Hannele that was sculpted in marble. It measures 12 x 9 ½ and is on heavy cardboard. Perfect for framing. I believe it was from the official art archive maintained in the vault at the Brown House in Munich. It has the printed legend on the back that identifies it as being printed by the Heinrich Hoffmann studios in Munich. At the top there is a stamp that says Hauptbucherei or main book collection. In the middle is a large stamp that is shown in a rectangle and translates as the National Socialist German Workers Party Main HQ at 54 Sterneckerbrau with its telephone number. Why?  The earliest address for the official Nazi Party is used here is unknown to us but they must have continued to use this address as a sub-station after the Braun-Haus was acquired and became the main headquarters. In any case, this has all the stamps and indications of official usage to show its importance, certainly Josef Thorak was only rivaled by Arno Brecker as Germany’s greatest sculptors. The picture is in very good condition with a very minor spot the size of a pin head at about the 3:00 position on the front. ( Does not detract!)  A genuine Third Reich art item of obvious importance.

PRICE: $135.00  

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

Commemorative Plate Hand Painted in Memory of The Battle of Arnheim in 1944 (Item WAF 12-24 & ART 17-4)

DESCRIPTION: The 19th Panzer Division Frundsberg was an elite armored unit whose 1st campaign was in the Ukraine in April 1944 they were highly motivated after combat success and the unit was transported to the west where they valiantly fought the Allied invaders in France and at Arnheim.  The movie (A Bridge too Far) attempted to record the incidents of this battle with the Allies of course portrayed as “good Guys” and the Waffen SS soldiers shown as bumbling idiots who blatantly offered themselves as bumbling fools  who offered their bodies as swell targets.  Of course this was for the pleasure of the ‘real idiots’ who enjoyed watching this distortion of history as long as enough German blood would flow even in screen portrayal. The efforts of the SS Frundsberg heroes was unfortunately to no avail for they were hopelessly out gunned and overwhelmingly outnumbered but they lived up to their motto ‘Meine Ehre Heist Treue! And their by -words Wenn alle Untrue werden so bleiben wir doch treue – (When all were untrue we remain loyal!)

  The plate has a hand painted depiction of a Waffen SS trooper helping a wounded comrade off the field.  Below this is the runic looking (F) in the shield surmounted over the oak leaf of the unit and around the edges are the words Schlacht Von Arnheim (Battle at Arnheim) this was a tragic battle where most of the brave German defenders were killed or wounded but still does the fame of their glory remain.  They fought for Europe and the west, they gave their lives to defeat evil Bolshevism that horrid system that was aided abetted and joined by the so-called Democracies. Let this plate be a small memorial to these heroic soldiers of the Reich.

  The plate is measured at 10 ½ inches in diameter.  On the back it says Waffen SS and -Deutsches Hand-Maleri (hand painted). A beautiful piece of art it was painted in 1984 -40 years after the battle. We don’t know who the artist was but he certainly caught the spirit of the “Helden Deutschen Soldaten”this rendering is  not an item from the years of the Third Reich but it richly captures the Geist of the turbulent times. This could have been produced by the artist to commemorate the reunion of the veterans of the Frundsberg Panzer division in 1984.

PRICE: SOLD

DESCRIPTION: Here is a beautiful bronze bust of a soldat of the First World War mounted on a marble two piece base with a plaque commemorating the campaign in Poland in 1939 and the participation of the elite SS Division SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.  It says: Polenfeldzug LSSAH, 8 9 1939 Pabiance, 15 9 1939 Bzura. Ubergand Sochaczew.

These dates and places refer to battles in the Polish campaign Pabiance was captured by the SS Leibstandarte in Sept. 1939. The battle of Bzura was a battle in the opening campaign of WWII and fought between Polish and German forces.  The SS LAH took a major part in the offensive.  These battles were named as the Sochaczew area offensive.  This would be basically the meaning of Ubergang Sochaczew.  The statue with marble base is measured at 8 inches and the bronze soldatenkopf itself is about five inches tall.  It is unsigned but a fine handsome likeness of what we call the ‘Geist Des Deutschen Soldat” (the spirit of the German Soldier).  The company of the SS LAH that added the plaque thought evidently that this would be the appropriate piece to honor their company and the Leibstandarte in general who paid the Poles back for Bronberg, Eichdorf, Hopfengarten, and Marzheim.  Read about this on the web.  The Polish attack against these innocent people was on orgy of murder and rape that is beyond belief. The testimony of 593 witnesses established the fact that at least 3841 named ethic Germans were murdered by the Poles prior to the German occupation. Is it any wonder that the Führer gave the order to invade Poland?  Yes, there was payback (in spades) but the facts run contrary to the history that is promulgated by orthodox historians of today.  Part of their agenda is to paint a picture of innocent little Poland being invaded by the nasty Nazis for no good reason. Revision is bringing history to square with the truth.

PRICE: SOLD

Commemorative Hand Painted Art Plate SS Paratrooper Regiment 500 (Item ART 17-6 & WAF 12-27)

DESCRIPTION: This maybe the only memorial to the bravery and daring-do of the elite of the elite, the SS Fallshirmjager unit 500. This battalion was formed out of the ‘Operation Eiche (oak)” that resulted in the rescue of Mussolini form the Italian Gran Sasso led by Otto Skorzeny.  The operation was planned by Kurt Student.  We all know of this successful operation that was pulled off with only one shot fired.  The organization of this unit can be found on the web by putting in 505th SS parachute battalion. The plate that we offer is a commemorative of one particular incident and that was the raid on the headquarters of the bloodiest monster to ever draw a breath.  This filthy rodent was so despicable that it is difficult to mention his full name without provoking vomit.  The 500th was led by SS Haupstumführer Kurt Rybka during its daring parachute and glider-borne assault on Tito's H.Q. outside the town of Drvar on 25 May 1944.  The raid was called Operation Rosselsprung (the spring of the Knights). Two companies were dropped directly on the headquarters where the other two were landed by DFS 230 glider. Their first wave of paratroopers following a heavy bombardment by the Luftwaffe, landed in between the area of the cave, Tito’s hideout and the town of Drvar on open ground and many were gunned down by members of the partisan HQ Escort Battalion, a company numbering fewer than 100 Communist partisans. The second wave of paratroopers missed their target altogether and landed a few miles outside the town. Tito was long gone when the paratroopers captured the cave.  Next to the cave’s exit, there was a path leading to a railroad where Tito boarded a train that very unfortunately took him to safety in Jajce.  Tito had been forewarned and evaded capture while the numerically superior partisan forces that now joined the action drove off the SS paratroopers.  Over 800 of the 1,000 German personnel who participated in the operation were killed or wounded. Thus ended one of the bravest exploits of the war. This raid was the basis of the later movie The Dirty Dozen but of course we know that Red Hollywood would manipulate this crusade of crusaders by the simple rewritten change- over from the heroic (Knight) Kurt Rybka and his valiant soldiers to the likes of Lee Marvin and Borgnine.  It is easy to see that the plot of this cinema trash was lifted directly from the Drvar Raid. Substitute the Germans purpose that was to capture or kill the biggest Communist terrorist rodent to the mission of convicted murderers of the lowest animal species out to murder German officers in the most heinous fashion. Of course that is what Hollywood does isn’t it?  Take for example the filthy cinema exercise in murder portrayal named appropriately (Inglorious Bastards). That was the absolute height of an anti-German tirade produced by a ‘Bastard’ named Quentin Tarrantino a scumbag Hollywood director who looks like and acts like Tito himself. The Tito regime killed in cold blood more than 500,000 people besides German soldiers. They murdered those they suspected of collaboration, anti-communists, Ustachi, and even critics.  While he was U.S. President Jimmy Carter highly praised Marshal Tito as a great world leader, an inspiration to his people blah, blah, blah. - -DUH !!!!

Queen Elisabeth that poor old comical figurehead welcomed with red carpet treatment this demon straight from hell with blood still on his claws to England. The silly wench even gave him a Rolls Royce as an official royal gift. A Dingbat personified! So much for the history lesson, suffice to say had the crusading mission of the SS 500 gone off as planned the monstrous Gargoyle would have been prevented from murdering untold thousands and maybe Germania International might have had the opportunity of offering his skinned out hide. Do you suppose I harbor some animosity against this slimy creature? Well I just don’t know where you might get that idea!

The plate measures 10 ½ inches in diameter it has the great depiction done by hand of the paratroopers in combat position. In the center it commemorates the 40th anniversary of the raid and around the edges are the words Drvar-Jugoslavion 1944-1984 at the bottom is the Luftwaffe paratroopers combat badge why Luftwaffe? Because the training of the SS men and the original planning of the raid was all Luftwaffe. On the back of the plate you will see the Luftwaffe eagle with L/35 and the words (Deutsche Hand-malerei) Hand Painted. This is not an item painted in the war years. Still, it is a relic directly influenced by the gallant and valiant epic mission. We have never come across another so we assume it might be unique. But it does stand as a memorial to these brave soldaten of the Reich.

PRICE: $250.00

Original Early Sketch by Adolf Hitler Accompanied With Official Provenance (Item ART 17-7 & AH 26-22)

DESCRIPTION: Here is an incredible find. A great sketch rendered by Adolf Hitler just before WW I. The sketch is of the famed Munich Isator (the old city gate that dates from the 14th century. As fate would have it the famous Beer Hall Putsch of Nov 9th, 1923 proceeded through the Isator.  You can see Hitler and his followers passing through it on that fateful day. See it on a site named Hitler pages München.)

There were four gates that were entrance points of the old walled city.  The Karl’s Gate, the Sendlingern gate, the Schwabingertor and the Isator. Only the Schwabingertor is no longer there (demolished at the beginning of the 19th century). The famous Feldherrenhalle stands at that site today. In 1984 Billy V. Price of Texas published a book on Adolf Hitler’s art titled ‘Adolf Hitler the Unknown Artist.’ In this beautiful edition he shows many Hitler oils, watercolors and sketches done by Germany’s future Fuhrer in his early years. It is interesting to note that Hitler was somehow inspired by these Munich gates and often portrayed them in his art renderings. In Price's book there are several depictions in sketches of the Sendlinger Tor, and the Karlstor but none of the Isator. Now it only stands to reason that he would have sketched the three gates that still existed in his time. When one observes the watercolor of the Sendlinger Tor on page 175, at the bottom of the page you can sense the identical style as seen in the sketch we offer here. We believe we have turned up the missing gate by A. Hitler. So here we proudly present the Isortor and with this rendering is an official provenance dated August 2, 1981 by Professor August Priesack. This man and one Herr Peter Jahn of Vienna (both deceased) were the only reliable persons who were known and trusted researchers of Hitler paintings and sketches. Herr Jahn was a noted authority of Hitler’s art and actually was employed by Reichskanzler Hitler when in 1935 a systematic search for Hitler’s art was given an official status by the historical research division of the NSDAP central archival authority. Jahn was given the task of recovering Hitler’s works of art. This so-called ‘secret section’ was exclusively involved in researching Hitler’s past. Two archivists Wilhelm Dammn and Dr. Professor August Priesack worked together and were responsible for authenticating all Hitler art that could be purchased or borrowed. The actual search for the artworks was carried out by the staff members under the departmental jurisdiction of Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess. When a painting or drawing was located, the staff’s cultural attaché Dr. Ernst Schulte-Strathaus turned over the work to Herr Dammann and Dr.Professor Priesack for thorough examination. Two years after the Munich team of Dammann and Priesack had begun its work the Chief Officer of the German Embassy in Vienna Baron Otto Von Stein contracted the Viennese art historian and dealer Peter Jahn at the behest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and requested his help in locating those of the Führer's works done in Austria. Herr Jahn took the assignment and on two occasions personally delivered paintings to the NSDAP headquarters in Munich where he met Hitler and discussed art and Hitler’s early experiences in Vienna. Before his death Dr. Priesack had accomplished significant research in the field and possessed the largest collection of documentation on Hitler’s art in the world.  With Peter Jahn these two men were considered the last surviving experts on the authentication of Adolf Hitler’s art.  Without the accompaniment of provenance of either of these two historians and researchers one can never be quite sure of the authenticity of Hitler’s paintings or sketches. 

We are proud of this marvelous acquisition with Dr. Priesack's signed statement accompanying it. The Isator sketch is measured at 24 x 32 and the respected professor basically says:   (Expertise)

“Seen above are photos and details of this remarkable and finely executed pencil drawing of the stable-end of the Munich Isartor and is a genuine work of the artist Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) the original size is 24 x 32 (cm). This rendering was originated circa 1913-1914 and produced when his signature corresponds within this date.  This was a favorite motif of Adolf Hitler. Offered by Dr. A. Priesack since 1935 specialist of or the works of Adolf Hitler (Munich 8.2.1981)."

Dr. Priesack's archive stamp also appears with his former office address, and it of course signed in hand by the professor. The Hitler signature is just as the Herr Professor has indicated, correct for that early time in Hitler’s life. The sketch is nicely framed and matted on a special hand-made frame measuring 18 ½ by 29 ½ inches. The actual drawing is about 12 inches by 10 inches mounted and matted. Within the frame is a 6 ½ x 8 ½ copy of an early picture of the young Hitler. The drawing is museum mounted (not glued) inside the frame and the glass is of special non-glare construction that makes the glass virtually invisible with UV filtering.  The matting is expertly done with expensive craft paper and the sketch is deeply set to avoid contact with the glass. Spacers were utilized. The result is that the artwork looks to be floating in the frame.  This is the most desirable method when framing an important art work such as this. The framing of this sketch was done with absolute mastery of the framing art.  A copy of the Preisack letter is in a pocket on the back of the frame but the original letter goes with the purchase of course. Here is a rare chance to own an authentic drawing by the 20th century’s most famous world leader.  A man whose watercolors are highly sought after and bring “astronomical prices” while the renderings of Winston Churchill (who fancied himself an artist and ‘Ike’ Eisenhower’s paintings bring very little on the art market) but before anyone jumps to the conclusion that it is only the morbid collector who would collect Hitler’s paintings and drawings because of his so-called “evil image”-(debatable!)  Think about war criminal Churchill’s orders resulting in the genocide perpetrated against the thousands of innocent people of Dresden and “Ike’s outright heinous genocidal order murdering nearly a million German POWs in the prisoner of war camps along the Rhine in 1945. (Please read David Irving’s “Destruction of Dresden” and James Bacque’s, “Other Losses” available from Amazon books on the internet). Adolf Hitler was in fact a darned good artist while Winnie and Ike were less than mediocre as painters.

PRICE: SOLD

Bronze Wehrmacht and Party Eagle Desk Piece (Item ART 17-8; NSDAP 19-8; BRONZE 2-7)

DESCRIPTION: Here is a magnificent sculpture in rich patinated bronze of the mighty German Hoheitsabzeichen or National Eagle. This configuration is different in that the eagle is perched upon a stationary swastika, not the usual mobile form. In the early days of the National Socialist movement this usage of the symbol was seen quite as much as the mobile form. This is one of the wonderful bronze sculptures that we managed to locate and purchase in the Gleiwitzdistrict near Berlin. See the Reichsparteitag Eagles at Partei 2-10. Here it explains how all the bronze sculptures came into our possession and this is one of the Prussian Bergwerk greats! The eagle on its double granite base is 9 ½ inches high. The actual bronze being 8 inches high. The wingspan is 6 inches. The depiction is spectacular embodying the mythos and spirit of the Third Reich like no other art object of the time. Strength, defiance, and majesty are apparent in the bold look of this magnificent sculpture. The base in granite was added later because the foundry had to order them separately in the 1930’s and 1940’s. We managed to find the marble quarry nearby that supplied the foundry in those days and we purchased plinths exactly like the originals that the eagles were mounted on. There might be a minor chip here and there (but certainly minor). These eagles were ordered by German army, navy, air force, and political-office groups as the ultimate desk ornament that portrayed national pride—and that it certainly does convey. No symbol of ultimate authority and nationalistic fervor ever existed that so graphically conveys such historical grandeur “Flieg Deutscher Adler, Flieg! (Fly German Eagle, Fly!)—from the NS song book . There is no artist’s signature on these eagles, but we suspect that they are by Herr Kurt Schmidt Ehmen the “Adlermeister” of the Third Reich. Also see the Eagle of the German Pavilion at Partei 2-11. We have only three of these; so don’t hesitate!

PRICE: SOLD

Small but Great Booklet with Works of Arno Brecker (Item ART 17-9)

DESCRIPTION: This is truly a culture-bearing volume of the Reich, small but absolutely beautiful and important to the Bewegung. It contains the works of Arno Brecker, who was, in my opinion, the absolutely greatest sculpture of the last four centuries—the Michelangelo of the 20th century. It comprises 51 pages of images of the greatest of his statues and busts to include such luminaries as Richard Wagner, Albert Speer, and, of course, the Führer. Other statues are of the Wehrmacht, the Partei. These stood at the entrance to the new Reich’s Chancery in Berlin. When each picture appears in the right-hand page, on the left is an appropriate beautiful, meaningful poem. The book is dedicated to the Deutschen Soldaten (German solder). It was published by the Volk und Reich Publishing and Company in Berlin and was for distribution to the army personal as a special offering by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Army). The title is Bereitschaft. This is a very important little art book of the Third Reich and it certainly must have been a great inspiration to the troops. It was published for distribution inland but many must have made their way to the various Fronts because this one has a stamp in the front inside cover that shows it was issued by the General Command Staff in greater Paris, France. This is fine addition to a German-art collection.

PRICE: SOLD

Artist's signature

Bronze Sculpture of Germanic Hunter (Item ART 17-10; BRONZEMET 2-4a; HUNT 8-4)

PRICE: $7,800.00

Walkürie Statue in Bronze (Item ART 17-11, I-FAS 2-8, FRAN 2-3, BRONZEMET 1-3; BRONZE 1-6)

PRICE: SOLD

Mother-of-Pearl Panoply of the 1937 Paris Exposition (Item ART 17-12)

PRICE: SOLD

Wewelsburg Castle

Inside the castle

Look at the configuration
made by the SS men

Christening ceremony

Ceremony at the castle

Ancient rituals with ancient music

Inner office of the Ahnenerbe in Berlin

The fastener

Allach worker

Amber Necklace from the -Deutsche Ahnenerbe (Item ART 17-13; AHN 4-21)

PRICE: SOLD

Presentation letter

Presentation page

The Olympics of antiquity

German women's team

Jesse Owens

Jesse, again

The Italian team

Book by Leni Riefenstahl entitled Schönheit Im Olympischen Kampf (Beauty in Olympic Competition) (Item ART 17-14; OLY 7-14; PARTEI 4-9)

PRICE: SOLD