1894 - 1986

Sculptor. Born in Frankfurt, Kormis studied at the local high school, and served in the Austrian Army during the First World War. He was captured, imprisoned in Siberia, but escaped, and returned to Frankfurt. He worked mainly as a portrait sculptor, but when Hitler came to power he moved first to the Netherlands and then to London in 1934. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Beaux Arts Gallery, Fieldborne Galleries, and abroad. His work is in the collections of the British Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon. He practised also as a medallist, producing effigies of distinguished figures, including Sir Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, J.B. Priestley, and Golda Meir. He is also known for his figures and portraits in stone, wood, bronze, and terracotta, and his public commissions include the Shield Bearer in the Corn Exchange, Stratford-upon-Avon, the Prisoner of War Memorial, Gladstone Park, Willesden, and The Ever-lamenting Harp, Kiryat Gat, Israel.