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Paul Hamann

(1891-1973), Sculptor

Artist of 4 portraits
Sculptor Paul Hamann designed a process to create life masks, a variation of the then still popular tradition of death masks. During the 1930s Hamann made dozens of life masks of famous British, German, and Swiss men and women of politics and the arts.

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Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West, by Paul Hamann - NPG 6071

Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West

by Paul Hamann
plaster cast of life-mask, 1929
NPG 6071

Noël Coward, by Paul Hamann - NPG 5404

Noël Coward

by Paul Hamann
bronze life-mask, 1981, based on a work of 1930
On display in the Weston Wing Café at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5404

Aldous Huxley, by Paul Hamann - NPG 5403

Aldous Huxley

by Paul Hamann
bronze life-mask, 1981, based on a work of 1930
On display in Room 32 on Floor 1 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5403

Raymond Mortimer, by Paul Hamann - NPG 6072

Raymond Mortimer

by Paul Hamann
plaster cast of life-mask, 1930
NPG 6072

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