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This is a very good, complete 100% original example of the very, very rare, very heavily illustrated softcover book Deutsche Künstler und die SS (German Artists and the SS) as published for the Reichsführer SS - SS Hauptamt by Wilhelm Limpert Verlag in Berlin in 1944. This was the catalog for the exhibition by the same name held in early 1944 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland).

Inside a beautifully embossed and printed tan front cover with SS runes, a shield and oak leaves, designed by Johannes Boehland, there are 63 prints and many explanations of most of the very best SS-related pieces of art ever, and these were part of the Kunstausstellung in Breslau. The foreword to the book is by SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Waffen-SS Gottlob Berger, Chief of the SS-Hauptamt in Berlin and Heinrich Himmler’s trusted advisor on matters of racial selection.

Werden (Evolution), the Friedrich Wilhelm Kalb painting shown left was exhibited at the 1943 Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung in Munich and then featured in the 1944 exhibition Deutsche Künstler und die SS. An interesting historical update is that this dramatic painting was rediscovered in a convent near Prague in the Czech Republic in 2012!

Works of art in this rare 6-1/4 x 8-3/4 inch, 72 page book include the bust Der Führer und Reichskanzler by Arno Breker, the painting der Reichsführer-SS by Conrad Hommel, Waffen-SS im Kampf by Willi Tschech (shown left), Kameradschaft by Eduard Steiner, SS-Obergruppenführer ‘Papa’ Eicke by Hermann Otto Hoyer, der Tiger Tank by Georg Lebrecht, Marsch in die Stellungen by Rudolf Lipus, SS-Pioniere by Ottomar Anton, Amazone by Rudolf Alexander Agricola, Segen der Erde by Wolfgang Willrich, Jugend by Fritz Klimsch (shown directly below), HJ-Streifendienst by Richard Heymann, SS-Panzergrenadiere by Ernst Krause, SS-Junkerschule Tölz by C.Th. Protzen, Gebirgsjaeger by Hermann Geiseler, Europa by Karl Schuster-Winkelhof, Überführung der Toden vom 9. November by Karl Ritter vom Dombrowski, Unser Glaube - Unser Sieg by Fred Kocks, the haunting Bildnis Helga by Carl Diebitsch, Fliegerwetter by SS-Kriegsberichter Graf, Doppelposten der Waffen-SS by Gebhardt, Waffen-SS Vorkämpfer gegen den Weltfeind by Hans Schweitzer-Mjölnir, Werden by Friedrich Wilhelm Kalb, Kämpfer der Waffen-SS by SS-KB Palmowski, Studienblatt aus Russland by SS-KB Petersen, Polizei im Brandenkampf by Leo Katzmeier, Landeseigene Polizeireiter by Karl von Riefel, Allach porcelain figure Malachowski-Husar by Theodor Kärner, etc.