The Neoclassical Works of German Sculptor Emil Hipp

June 23rd, 2017

Awake Goy

From Faces of Ancient Europe

Emil Hipp (born 10 March 1893 in Stuttgart , died August 1, 1965 in Kiefersfelden) was a German sculptor and architect. Hipp is the representative of the style of neoclassicalism, which is widespread in architecture in national socialism.

Hipp created reliefs and sculptures for representative, national socialist buildings such as the Führerbau in Munich, the Friedrich Nietzsche Memorial in Weimar, and the Academy for Youth Leadership of the Hitler Youth in Braunschweig. His largest project before 1945 was the design of the Richard Wagner National Monument in Leipzig , which remained unfinished. The Leipzig art historian Frank Zöllner rated him as a “Nazi sculptor of the first rank”. After 1945, Hipp first developed warrior themes and worked as an architect.

In 1990 Alain de Benoist published The sculptor Emil Hipp and his work: The Richard Wagner monument to Leipzig. Georg Franz-Willing wrote the preface. Benoist puts Hipp in a series with Arno Breker and Josef Thorak.

The monument, which was no longer erected in Leipzig in 1945, led to a controversy between the monumentalist and supporter Wolfgang Hocquél in 2008, who saw a neo – classicist work “a phantasievalen, allegorical sculptural work of timeless aesthetics”, and the art historian Frank Zölln , who created the same reliefs for a Homage and confidence of national socialist youth and “Nazi propaganda art.”

Hocquéls advocated the erection of Hipp’s monument on the occasion of Wagner’s 200th birthday in 2013. In fact, a monument of Stephan Balkenhol was erected for the 200th birthday on 22 May 2013, the base of which consists of an unfinished monument of the artist Max Klinger.