1. Fritz Cremer

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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."

5. Sculptors

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. His works

9. References www.foerderverein- buchenwald.de/fuehrung_gloc...www.foerderverein- buchenwald.de/fuehrung_gloc... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Cremer commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:F ritz_Cremer...commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:F ritz_Cremer...