Edwin Scharff (1887 –1955) was a German sculptor.
Scharff attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich and
studied painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste. He lived in Paris
between 1912 and 1913, where he was influenced by the work of Aristide Maillol
and Auguste Rodin. After serving in the German army during World War One, where
he was badly wounded, he became a professor of sculpture at the Vereinigte
Staatsschulen für Freie und Angewandte Kunst, Berlin (1923). He was removed by
the Nazis in 1933, after which he found a position at the Kunstakademie in
Düsseldorf (1934–1937).
In 1928 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the
Olympic Games for his "Médaille pour les Jeux Olympiques"
("Olympic medals"). For the Reich's Exhibition of 1937 in Düsseldorf
he produced two large equestrian statues for the fair's portals, which resulted
in Scharff being classified as a degenerate artist.
He continued to work in
secret during World War Two, and after the war he became a professor at the
Landeskunstschule in Hamburg.
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