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Scharff attended theKunstgewerbeschule (1902–03) in Munich and studied painting at theAkademie der Bildenden Künste from 1904 to 1907. He lived in Paris between 1912 and 1913, where he was influenced by the work ofAristide Maillol andAuguste Rodin. After serving in the German army during World War One, where he was badly wounded, he became a professor of sculpture at the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für Freie und Angewandte Kunst, Berlin (1923). He was removed by the Nazis in 1933, after which he found a position at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (1934–1937).[1]
In 1928 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Médaille pour les Jeux Olympiques" ("Olympic medals").[2] For theReich's Exhibition of 1937 inDüsseldorf he produced two large equestrian statues for the fair's portals, which resulted in Scharff being classified as adegenerate artist. He continued to work in secret during World War Two, and after the war he became a professor at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg.[1]
Edwin Scharff, with introduction by Gottfried Sello, Hamburg, Claassen 1956
Ausstellungskatalog Edwin Scharff: catalogue for the exhibition in the Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover from 27 September to 4 November 1962, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim 1962/63, Städtisches Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum Hagen 1963, Kunsthalle zu Kiel 1963, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Duisburg 1963
Ludger Alscher et al.:Lexikon der Kunst. Architektur, Bildende Kunst, Angewandte Kunst, Industrieformgestaltung, Kunsttheorie. Band IV, Das europäische Buch, Westberlin 1984,ISBN9783884361122, p. 334 f.
Helga Jörgens-Lendrum:Der Bildhauer Edwin Scharff (1887–1955). Untersuchungen zu Leben und Werk, mit einem Katalog der figürlichen Plastik, Georg August-Universität, Göttingen 1994
Frank Raberg:Biografisches Lexikon für Ulm und Neu-Ulm 1802–2009. Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010,ISBN9783799580403, p. 354 f.
Helga Gutbrod, Edwin Scharff Museum Neu-Ulm (eds.):Edwin Scharff 1887–1955. ‚Form muss alles werden‘, Wienand, Köln 2013,ISBN9783868321371
