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Adolf Hitler Bronze Bust by Emil Cauer, Berlin - Adolf Hitler Bronze Bust by Emil Cauer, Berlin. The bust is 1.5x lifesize in overall good condition. Emil Cauer was part of a Berlin family of sculptors active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, producing portrait and figural work in bronze and related media for both private and public commission. The Cauer family were established Berlin sculptors across several generations, working primarily in a classical academic tradition of portrait busts, allegorical figures, and public monuments from the late nineteenth into the twentieth century. During the Nazi era, portrait busts of Adolf Hitler were produced by a number of established sculptors for party offices, state buildings, and official display, forming part of the broader visual apparatus by which the regime cultivated its leader's image. Such works were typically commissioned or approved for reproduction as part of state-sanctioned representations of Hitler as head of the German state and Nazi Party leader between 1933 and 1945.