Hanns Goebl ( – ) was a Bavarian

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who worked for the Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory. During the 1930s and 1940s he produced several works of art for the

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. Goebl was born in

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. From 1924 to 1929 he was a student at the

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where he studied under

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. He then received a one-year fellowship at the

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, the German art foundation in

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. When he returned to Germany he joined the Nympenburg Porcelain Factory where he designed numerous small works, especially statues of soldiers. In 1932 his work was displayed at the Villa Romana, the German art foundation in

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. In 1935 he was at the

Prussian Academy of Sciences The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences () was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin Academy" may also refer. In the 18th century, when Frenc ...

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. In 1940 and 1941 he was at the

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. In 1941 he designed the Hoheitsadler, the

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's coat of arms. He also sculpted a bust of

Rudolf von Sebottendorf Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer also known as Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff (or Sebottendorf; 9 November 1875 - 8 May 1945) was a German occultist, writer, intelligence agent and political activist. He was the founder of the Thule Society, a post-W ...

.Official website of the Freemasonic Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon in Canada
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1901 births 1986 deaths Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni 20th-century German sculptors 20th-century German male artists German male sculptors {{Germany-sculptor-stub