Wotan,
I've always enjoyed the large building eagles,
bronze and stone sculptures and those used for large, official meeting backdrops like the two photos that you just added. The one from the Kroll Opera House looks to be related to the two examples at the top of the thread. Art Deco at its finest.
I gathered several original photos of eagles and none ever came close to the Deco models. I saw a total of three that are exactly like your aluminum-alloy example, but never anything close to the second, darker piece which to me is simply outstanding!
There are just so many varieties that were used back then, many were unique and sometimes likely to be one-of-a-kind. If you start to count the hand-carved wooden versions, I'd imagine you could find hundreds, if not thousands of different eagle portraits, like that beauty that Gary found some months back. Tom Wittmann also has a fine wooden example in his Rustkammer that looks to be a nice early, political bird.
Then there was that great metal version that a Czech gentleman just posted in the HJ section, I like the looks of that one, too, and those big monsters that were found on naval ships are simply incredible.
I lent some of my best original photos to a fellow artist some years ago and he never returned them, but I still have a good variety left. As soon as I find them -
- I'll add those to your post. I think you might enjoy some of them, a few are very different. Maybe some of the other boys will add some of theirs, it's always great to see something new.
All the best !
Bill
