13 Facts About Emanuel Hahn

Emanuel Otto Hahn was a German-born Canadian sculptor and coin designer.

Emanuel Hahn co-founded and was the first president of the Sculptors' Society of Canada.

Emanuel Hahn studied modelling and commercial design at the Toronto Technical School and Ontario College of Art as well as Industrial Design from 1899 to 1903.

Emanuel Hahn then went on to study in Stuttgart, Germany in 1903, he pursued art and design at the local school of art and design and the Polytechnical School, and briefly apprenticed in the studio of a sculptor teaching at the academy.

From 1908 to 1912 Emanuel Hahn was a studio assistant to sculptor Walter Seymour Allward, helping in the construction of Allward's South African War Memorial in Toronto, the Alexander Graham Bell Telephone Memorial in Brantford Ontario, and the Baldwin-Lafontaine Monument on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Emanuel Hahn was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Emanuel Hahn married his former student Elizabeth Wyn Wood in 1926.

Emanuel Hahn designed a monument on the theme of a realistic soldier figure "going over the top" in Saint-Lambert, Quebec and a meditating figure of Tommy in his Greatcoat in Lindsay, Ontario.

Emanuel Hahn's winning proposal for the city of Winnipeg's war memorial caused a national controversy when the sculptor's German ancestry was revealed in 1925.

Emanuel Hahn was forced to relinquish the commission, although he was able to keep the prize money.

Emanuel Hahn was forced to withdraw from the contract and the memorial was awarded to the third-place winner.

Emanuel Hahn's career was not significantly harmed since he received wide press coverage, some of which condemned the city of Winnipeg because Emanuel Hahn was a naturalized Canadian citizen.

Emanuel Hahn was a member of The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and served as the first President of the Sculptors' Society of Canada, which he established with Frances Loring, Florence Wyle and Elizabeth Wyn Wood in 1928.