Alfred Hüttenbach was born in 1897 in Worms, Germany, into an important local Jewish family. Training as a sculptor in Munich, Rome and Paris, he had just started his career when he was forced to immigrate to London in 1934 in order to escape Nazi persecution. He continued working as a sculptor in exile and participated in a number of group exhibitions in London, including at the Parson's Galleries and with the Free German League of Culture at the Wertheim Gallery.
Sculptor Alfred Hüttenbach was born in 1897 in Worms, Germany, into an important local Jewish family. Hüttenbach moved to Munich in 1919 and trained as a sculptor in Munich, Rome and Paris. He had just started his career when the persecution of Jews in the Third Reich forced him to flee Germany.
Hüttenbach immigrated to England in 1934, where he continued working as a sculptor. The same year, he showed his sculpture Resting Woman in a group exhibition of German-Jewish artists at London's Parson's Galleries, one of the earliest venues to focus on work by émigré artists. In 1939 he showed a portrait of Anatole France in the First Group Exhibition of German, Austrian, Czechoslovakian Painters and Sculptors at the Wertheim Gallery, London, sponsored by the Free German League of Culture (FGLC, a politically orientated organisation which provided cultural support for German-speaking refugees). Hüttenbach was naturalised British in 1947 and, after the war, he set up his studio in Highgate, north London. In March 1951 he participated in Ben Uri's exhibition The Artist: Self-Portrait and Environment, followed by its
Festival of Britain: Anglo-Jewish Exhibition, 1851-1951, Art Section, held in the summer. In addition to working as a sculptor, he also wrote about monumental sculpture and became known as a collector, as well as a manufacturer and expert on plucked string instruments. Among Hüttenbach's notable sculpture commissions are the Spinoza bust at the Stichting Domus Spinozana in the Hague and the bust of Anatole France, now in the collection of the Wallraff-Richartz Museum, Cologne. Hüttenbach died in London in 1960. In 2007 an exhibition dedicated to the work of Hüttenbach and artist Bertha Strauss (1872–1929) was organised by the Jewish Museum in Worms together with the Kunstverein Worms.