Arno Breker in court

The former vice president of the Reichsbund of Fine Arts, the sculptor Arno Breker (centre), on 01 October 1948, during his testimony in the "Spruchkammer" (translated as "trial court") in Donauwörth. The trial court categorized the artist as a follower. The trained sculptor attended the arts and crafts school in Elberfeld and studied architecture and sculpture at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf from 1920-1925. Influenced by a stay abroad in Paris at the end of the twenties, Breker created mainly figurative sculptures and bronze sculpture and developed a monumental style during the National Socialism in Germany. Well-known for his muscular, heroic figures, Breker advanced quickly to the "court sculptor" of Hitler and received many orders from the Nazi regime. However, the controversial artist, did not only portray important people of the Third Reich, but also many prominent figures such as Ludwig Erhard, Gerhart Hauptmann, Winifred Wagner, Ulrike Meyfarth, Kaiser Haile Selassie, Salvador Dali and Rudolf-August Oetker. Breker was born in Elberfeld near Wuppertal on 19 July 1900 and died in Düsseldorf on 13 February 1991.