Breker (right) with Speer and Hitler in Paris, 23 June 1940.

Arno Breker (Elberfeld, now Wuppertal, July 19, 1900 - Dusseldorf, February 13, 1991) was a German sculptor best known for being endorsed by the authorities of Nazi Germany. Download high resolution version (1049x1461, 141 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1049x1461, 141 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

Breker, despite having some of his works considered as "degenerate art" and never having been a member of the Nazi Party, took National Socialist commissions from 1933 through 1942, for example participating in a show of his work in occupied Paris in 1942, where he met Jean Cocteau, who appreciated his work. He maintained personal relationships with Albert Speer and with Adolf Hitler. Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler and Adolf Ziegler visit the Nazi exhibition of degenerate art. ... The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: (help· info)), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. ... Albert Speer (help· info) (March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer in Mannheim, Germany, the second of three sons. ... (help· info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ...

The neoclassical nature of his work, with titles like Comradeship, Torchbearer, and Sacrifice, typified the characteristics of Nazi architecture. On closer inspection, though, the proportions of his figures, the highly colouristic treatment of his surfaces (the strong contrasts between dark and light accents), and the melodramatic tension of their musculatures perhaps invites comparison with the Italian Mannerist sculptors of the 16th century. This Mannerist tendency to Breker's neoclassicism may suggest closer affinities to concurrent expressionist tendencies in German Modernism than is acknowledged. Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ... Nazi architecture was an integral part of the Nazi partys plans to create a cultural and spiritual rebirth in Germany as part of the Third Reich. ... Mannerism is the term used to describe the artistic style that arose in mid-16th century. ... The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893) which inspired 20th century Expressionists Portrait of Eduard Kosmack by Egon Schiele Rehe im Walde by Franz Marc On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... Modernism is a cultural movement that generally includes progressive art and architecture, music and literature which emerged in the decades before 1914, as artists rebelled against late 19th century academic and historicist traditions. ...

His twin sculptures The Party and The Army held a prominent position at the entrance to the Reich Chancellery. Model of the new Reich Chancellory. ...

Breker received the Olympic Silver Medal for Art in 1936, and was a professor of visual arts in Berlin, until the fall of the Third Reich. After the war approximately 90% of his work was lost.

The Arno Breker Museum was inaugurated in 1985.

See also

• Nazi architecture
• Josef Thorak
• Werner Peiner

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External links

• The Art of Arno Breker
• Arno Breker Museum Official Site (in german)
• Arno Breker Biography (in german)
• Arno Breker Life, Work and Relanshionships with Modern Writers and Artists (in french)
• Web museum