Fritz Cremer

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Fritz Cremer
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General Information

• was born in October 22, 1906 and died in
  September 1, 1993.
• He was born in Arnsberg, Germany, and died in
  Berlin
• He was a German sculptor of catholic extraction,
  but turned to communism in the 1920s.
• Cremer was originally a stone-cutter.
• He studied at Berlin and got a government grant
  for the German academy in Rome, Villa Massimo
• Cremer went to Villa Massimo for two years, 1937
  to 1938.

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Early Life

• Cremer served as a soldier from 1940 to 1944,
• spending an extended leave in Rome where the
  German Academy had been taken over by the German
  army.
• In 1946 he got a professorship and the chair of
  sculpture department of the Academy for Applied
  Art in Vienna.

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What was he Famous for?

• He fought against fascism during II World War.
• He is remembered for works such as "Buchenwald
  Memorial," "Auferstehender," "Aufbauhelfer,"
  "Mütterguppe," "Denkmal Für Deutsche
  Spanienkámpfer" and "Trauernde."

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Sculptors
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GDR

• Cremer was respected in the GDR because he
  sometimes spoke up against the communist regime's
  stubborn denial of modernism and artistic liberty
• he was never censored since no doubt seems ever
  to have been cast on his political sincerity.
• Part of his authority, of course, was due to his
  decision to move to the East and to denounce
  Western policies during the Cold War.

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Mid-Life

• A good example of his work was comparable to that
  of the right-wing caricaturist A. Paul Weber in
  West Germany.
• It was widely distributed and quite masterly
  cycle of lithographs in which he denounced the
  Hungarian rebellion, shortly after the event.

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His works
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References

• www.foerderverein-buchenwald.de/fuehrung_gloc...
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Cremer
• commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ImageFritz_Cremer...