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Description
Kameraden (‘Comrades’)
Biography: Arno Breker
The dramatic sculpture depicts a standing caped man, defiant in his expression, supporting his clearly grievously wounded comrade-in-arms who is unconscious and rests in his friends arms.
The original sculpture was commissioned by Albert Speer in 1940, intended for inclusion in a 240 meter frieze at a proposed Soldatenhalle in Hitler’s rebuilt Berlin. A large plaster cast was displayed in the Great German Art Exhibition in 1940, Room 2. On 15 April, 1945, the Russian army found the huge bronze sculpture ‘Kameraden’ of 5 meter by 3,5 meter in front of Arno Brekers atelier in Wriezen.
Arno Breker, postcard*. ‘Kameraden’, GDK 1941.
| – condition | : II restored |
| – size | : 28,5 x 21 cm |
| – signed | : signed under feet (‘A Breker 14 November 1941’) |
| – type | : bas relief, cold cast bronze (kaltbronze), green patinated |
| – misc. | : series 50. Casts made after WWII (after the model of 1941) |
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