| In July 2006, the Schleswig-Holstein-Haus in Schwerin, the capital of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania decided to exhibit about 70 works owned by Breker's widow (1). Rudolf Conrades, the curator, said his goal was to provoke a discussion about Breker, who died in 1991, and to break the taboo surrounding his art. A lot of people from the Left and some good-thinkers from the Right argued it was a big mistake and that Breker's works should not be exhibited as he was a fervent supporter of the Nazi regime. One can not find a more stupid argument as Breker's works show profusely his huge genius and genius must not be judged by little political standards such as Right or Left. Below are some images of this exhibit which were kindly sent to me by Frank Bügel , a German citizen who lives in Schwerin. We thank him for his kind cooperation to the promotion of XXth century's German Art. |
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| Arno Breker was born in Elberfeld, Northern German, on July 19th, 1900. In his late teens be began the study of stone-carving and anatomy and at age 20 began attending the Duesseldolf Academy of Arts where he began his study of sculpture and an immensely successful art career. His work between 1933 and 1942 was most noted for its classical approach to the human form which depicts men and women in timeless glory. |
| So some glorious assholes would like to forbid us to look at those beauties made during the War because Arno Breker also glorified the Nazi obession for strenght and virility ? Everybody now knows that Hitler was a neuter and impotent, they should understand that Breker only glorified beauty. |
| Humility 1944 |
| Flora 1943 |
| Psyche 1941 |
| In 1970 he was commissioned by the king of Morocco to produce work for the United Nations Building in Casablanca, but the work was destroyed. Many other portrait works followed, including Anwar Sadat and Konrad Adenauer. Breker's rehabilitation continued, culminating in plans for the creation of a Breker museum, funded by the Bodenstein family, who set aside the castle of Nörvenich, between Aachen and Cologne for the purpose. The Arno Breker Museum was inaugurated in 1985. Breker's rehabilitation led to backlashes, including controversy in Paris when some of his works were exhibited at the Pompidou Center in 1981. In the same year anti-Breker demonstrations accompanied an exhibition in Berlin. Breker's admirers insisted that he had never been a supporter of Nazi ideology, but had simply accepted their patronage. Breker's last major work was a sculpture of Alexander the Great. After his death in 1990, the Viennese painter Ernst Fuchs said: ""With the demise of Arno Breker an epoch in the sculpture of our century comes to an end. Breker was a true prophet of the beautiful. He has shaped, time and again -- in the classical tradition-- the beauty of the image of man, as God had intended it, in a manner of unequaled mastership." It is incomprehensible that still today some idiots continue to be unable to see the greatness and the beauty of Breker's works to stick like vampires to his Nazi image. LAST NEWS On saturday 12th August a group of German anarchists gathered near the House of Arts in Schwerin Germany and then proceeded into the exhibit itsel to protest the whole concept of the show deeming it was a "fascist" exhibition and that fascism was not an opinion but a crime. Then the wrapped up every sculpture of the exhibit with toilet papers or paper-rolls. They required the exhibit to be closed down but the Curator of the House of Arts refused to be intimidated and decided the show would go on. You can watch this disruption of the exhibit by clicking on ARNO BREKER EXHIBIT |
ARNO BREKER EXHIBIT IN GERMANY
July 2006
Breker was a professor
of visual arts in Berlin,
until the fall of the Third
Reich. While nearly all
of his sculptures
survived WWII, more
than 90% of his work
was destroyed by the
allies after the war.
In 1948 Breker was
designated as a "fellow
traveller" of the Nazis
which means he was
not considered as a war
criminal or a rabid nazi
and was fined. At this
time he returned to
Düsseldorf, which
remained his base, with
periods of residence in
Paris.
of visual arts in Berlin,
until the fall of the Third
Reich. While nearly all
of his sculptures
survived WWII, more
than 90% of his work
was destroyed by the
allies after the war.
In 1948 Breker was
designated as a "fellow
traveller" of the Nazis
which means he was
not considered as a war
criminal or a rabid nazi
and was fined. At this
time he returned to
Düsseldorf, which
remained his base, with
periods of residence in
Paris.
