ABSTRACT
(1900–1991), German sculptor. Born the son of a stonemason and sculptor, Breker studied art in Düsseldorf. He spent a brief period in Rome (where he helped restore one of michelangelo’s statues), then lived in Paris between 1927 and 1933, returning to Germany the year that Hitler became Chancellor. Soon Breker became the most renowed sculptor of the Nazi regime and one of Hitler’s favourite artists. Indeed in 1937 Hitler made Breker ‘Official State Sculptor’, gave him a large property and provided a studio where the sculptor employed a thousand assistants; he was also exempted from military service.
