[1] Bernhard Bleeker was born on 26 July 1881 in Münster, Westphalia, North (Germany).

"This work is still influenced by a typically neobaroque style, represented by his teacher Rümann and other numerous artist-colleagues.

"During the Third Reich, Bleeker as a well respected artist often participated in propagandistic exhibitions, for example at the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich.

He reworked it several times and up to 1944 25 busts were delivered to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP).

[3] As a result of his connection to the Nazi regime he lost his teaching post at the Munich Academy in 1945.