Breker, Arno, born 19-07-1900 in Elberfeld, now Wuppertal,
the son of the stonemason Arnold Breker, was a German sculptor, best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, which were endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of so-called “degenerate art”. As the eldest son of a stonemason family (grave specialty), he learned the principles of handicrafts (Steinmetz) in his father’s workshop. After high school, he first attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in his hometown of Elberfeld (which later became part of Wuppertal) (anatomy and drawing course). There he was particularly impressed by Auguste Rodin’s
sculpture, a love that would last his whole life. In the meantime, he was actually in charge of the family business after his father was drafted into military service. After attempts to take classes in Munich with the well-known professor of sculpture Adolf von Hildebrand,
which was canceled due to lack of finances, he studied Plastik and Architektur at the Düsseldorf Art Academy
from 1920 to 1925 with Hubert Netzer
and Wilhelm Kreis, among others. Wilhelm Kreis here with Joseph Goebbels







At the end of 1924, he first visited Paris, made financially possible by the sale of a weibliche Plastik (a naked woman’s torso)
, a genre that he would continue to practice for a lifetime. In Paris he was included in the circle of well-known artists including Cocteau, Picasso and Jean Renoir

Breker joined the Nazi Party
and was supported by Adolf Hitler (did you know). He was made “official state sculptor” by Hitler (see Hitler Paula)



















Death and burial ground of Breker, Arno.


On 13-02-1991 at the very old age of 90, Arno Breker passed away at his home in Düsseldorf, the same day that Richard Wagner died and Siegfried “Fidi” Wagner.



Father Otto Frank survived the concentration camps and, he died old age 91, on 19-08-1980,



Hitler’s favourite architect Hermann Giesler, Generalleutnant der Artillerie, Kommandeur der 526th Infanterie Division, Fritz Kühne, diplomat Ernst von Rath, killed in Paris by the Jewish boy Herschel Grynspan
, and SS Obergruppenführer, Höhere SS und Polizei Führer Nord, Fritz Weitzel.

Arno Breker was married twice. His first wife, Demetra Messala,
was a Greek model. She died in 1956 in a car accident. He remarried in 1958 the 26 years younger Charlotte Kluge.
They had two children, Gerhart (1959) and Carola (1962). Breker remained married to Kluge until his death in 1991



