Fritz Röll, Sandal Binder, marble

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‘Sandalenbinder’ (‘Sandel Binder’)
Biography: Fritz Röll

Created in marble, life-size.
Displayed under the name ‘Jünglingsfigur’ at the Great German Art Exhibition 1939, room 24 (depicted in the exhibition catalogue).
Bought by Adolf Hitler for 20.000 Reichsmark.

The ‘Sandalenbinder’ by Fritz Röll, marble, life size (height 140 cm). Created in Rome between 1910 – 1914, when Röll stayed at the Villa Massimo German Academy.
Displayed under the name ‘Jünglingsfigur’ (‘Figure of Young Man’), GDK 1939 room 24. Bought by Hitler for 20.000 Reichsmark. This marble sculpture was also displayed at the exhibition ‘Hundert Jahre Berliner Kunst’, 1929 (‘Im Schaffen des Vereins Berliner künstler’), organized by the Verein Berliner Künstler’, Berlin.
Filmed at the the Day of German Art, 16 July 1939. From left to right: Joseph Goebbels, Italian Minister Dino Alfieri, Gerdi Troost and Hitler.
‘New Aesthetics: Hitler’s Vision for Art and Culture | Project Nazi – Full History Documentary’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMFlbu6mma8 (at 34.25) 

‘Sandal Binder‘ by Fritz Röll at the GDK 1939, 16 July 1939. Left: Rudolf Hess.
The picture is from the documentary: Entartet! Die Nazis und die Kunst (at 0.54)

Photo taken on 11/12 July 1939 during a preliminary viewing of the GDK.
From left to right: Heinrich Hoffmann, Karl Kolbe (director HddK) and Hitler.

Monastery of Hohenfurt (Vyssi Brod), Czech Republic
In the beginning of 1944, Dr. Hans Reger (architect in charge of the Führerbau, Munich 1938-1945) shipped in several transports 43 paintings and 52 sculptures from Hitler’s private contemporary art collection -and other stolen art collections- to the Monastery of Hohenfurt (Vyssi Brod), near Linz in the Czech Republic.
After the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia, valuable art, such as pieces from the Mannheimer- and Rothschild collections, were confiscated by the U.S. Army and taken to the Munich Central Collection Point in an effort to return them to their original owners. Art works then considered as having no value, like contemporary German Nazi-art works, were left behind. They were photographed in August 1945 by the former director of the Czech State Institute of Photometry, Antonín Friedl, along with the photographer Jan Tuháček. The marble ‘Sandalenbinder’ by Fritz Röll was one of the 52 sculptures hided in the Monastery of Hohenfurt in 1945. Later, the art works previously owned by Hitler, ended up scattered across the country.
Since 2012, twenty-three paintings by German artists -that Adolf Hitler personally purchased during WWII- were found back at various Czech institutions. Seven were discovered at the Zákupy Chateau, the site where items from confiscated castles, chateaus and private houses were gathered after the war. Seven other canvases were found at the convent of Premonstratensian Sisters in Doksany, near Prague. One painting was found at the Military Institute in Prague, and four works were found at the Sychrov Castle. Four other paintings were found in the building of the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague.
Three larges bronzes were found back at the Aleš South Bohemian Gallery: ‘The Rower’ by Hermann Zettlitzer, ‘Aphrodite‘ by Wilhelm Wandschneider, and ‘The Sower‘ by Willi Knapp.
All the twenty-three paintings are now in the possession of the ‘Czech National Institute for the Protection and Conservation of Monuments and Sites’. They will remain in the Czech Republic.
Until the 1980s the marble ‘Sandalenbinder’ by Fritz Röll was located in Schloß Lemberk/Nordböhmen, later brought to Liberec (Reichenberg) and then in 2004 it showed up at the auction of Sotheby in London.

Left: ‘Sandalenbinder’ by Roll. The marble sculpture was also displayed at the exhibition ‘Hundert Jahre Berliner Kunst’, 1929 (‘Im Schaffen des Vereins Berliner Künstler’), organized by the Verein Berliner Künstler’, Berlin. Depicted in the exhibition catalogue.
Right: ‘Sandalenbinder‘, by Fritz Röll, marble, as it was found in 1945 in the Czech Republic, Monastery of Hohenfurt. Photo: ‘Hitlerova Sbirka v Cechach’, by Jiri Kuchar.
  

The marble Sandel Binder, displayed in 2008 at the International Art and Antique Fair, Olympia Exhibition Centre, London.
  

In 1909 Fritz Röll was awarded the Great State Prize of the Prussian Academy of Art for his sculpture ‘Sandalenbinder’ (Sandal Binder): this was a life size plaster cast.
In 1910 a bronze cast (smaller than life size) was displayed at the Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung.
In 1911 a bronze cast of Sandalenbinder was again displayed at the Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, however this time a life size cast was shown (height 140 cm). This cast was bought by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
In the same year another life size bronze cast was displayed in the Munich Glaspalast, at the ‘Jubiläums- Ausstellung der Münchener Künstler-Genossenschaft, Zu Ehren des 90. Geburtstages Sr. Kgl. Hoheit des Prinz Regenten Luitpold von Bayern’.
Later, in 1943, again a smaller than life size bronze cast was displayed at the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung. It was bought by the ‘Gaumuseum für Kunsthandwerk in Danzig’.

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