Joseph Franz Pallenberg, large eagle
circa 1930, signed "Jos. Pallenberg" , foundry stamp DB in ligature, bronze ...

Joseph Franz Pallenberg, large eagle
circa 1930, signed "Jos. Pallenberg" , foundry stamp DB in ligature, bronze greenish patinated, minimally abstracted depiction of a standing bird of prey with wings laid, on rectangular, naturalistically designed plinth, on flat stone base, well preserved according to age, h bronze 34 cm, overall 37 cm. Artist info: actually Josef Franz Pallenberg (1882 Cologne to 1946 Düsseldorf), German sculptor, especially known for his animal sculptures, descended from a Cologne family of artists, began self-taught drawing of animals at the age of six in the Cologne Zoo, from 1899 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Ernst Roeber and Willy Spatz in the drawing class, then in the class of the sculptor Karl Janssen, created his first important work there, the Sauhatz, this was shown in 1902 in the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, in the course of the Great Trade and Industry Exhibition, in 1904 presented with 16 animal sculptures at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, in 1907 small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, created the large animal bronzes at the entrance gate of the Hagenbeck Zoo and numerous dinosaur sculptures for their dinosaur park, also created the Rominter Brunfthirsch in his Cologne studio, which was awarded the Gold State Medal at the National Art Exhibition in 1907 and is still exhibited today in the Berlin Zoological Garden, a replica of which stands today in the northern part of the Düsseldorf Hofgarten, he later moved to Düsseldorf-Lohausen to a new studio and housed there, among other things, quite exotic animals, he travelled, among other places, to the USA and throughout his life created numerous works tending more towards the academic, which were also highly appreciated by zoologists. Source: Internet.