Kurt Harald Isenstein

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Kurt Harald Isenstein
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Born(1898-08-13)13 August 1898
Died3 February 1980(1980-02-03) (aged 81)
Copenhagen, Denmark
NationalityGerman
OccupationSculptor

Kurt Harald Isenstein[ needs German and Danish IPA ] (13 August 1898 3 February 1980) was a German sculptor. [1] His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. [2]

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References

  1. Bauer, Heike (2014), "Burning Sexual Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin", in Partington, Gill; Smyth, Adam (eds.), Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 17–33, doi:10.1057/9781137367662_2, ISBN   978-1-137-36766-2 , retrieved 7 October 2022
  2. "Kurt Harald Isenstein". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 July 2020.