emil scheibe (1914 - 2008)
Emil Scheibe was a German painter and graphic artist and member of the Munich Secession.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, served in the army during World War II and painted portraits, including of soldiers and commanders. Emil Scheibe's giant 1942 oil painting Hitler at the Front, which depicts soldiers surrounding the leader on the front lines, is well known. Adolf Hitler liked this epic painting so much that he bought it himself, and it is now housed in a museum at a military base in Virginia, USA. From 1941 to 1944, Scheibe was featured in every major German art exhibition at the House of German Art in Munich. His watercolors were purchased by Hitler's generals, including Joseph Goebbels. Visual propaganda played a central role in Hitler's ascent.
During his long life, Scheibe painted in a wide variety of genres and styles, but it is believed that he developed his own style of "existential realism."
