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Arno Breker (Elberfeld, now Wuppertal, July 19 , 1900 - Dusseldorf, February 13 , 1991 ) was a German sculptor best known for being endorsed by the authorities of Nazi Germany . Breker, despite having some of his works considered as " Degenerate Art " and never having been a member of the Nazi Party , took National Socialist commissions from 1933 through 1942, for example participating in a show of his work in occupied Paris in 1942, where he met Jean Cocteau , who appreciated his work. He maintained personal relationships with Albert Speer and with Adolf Hitler . The Neoclassical nature of his work, with titles like ''Comradeship'', ''Torchbearer'', and ''Sacrifice'', typified the characteristics of Nazi Architecture . On closer inspection, though, the proportions of his figures, the highly colouristic treatment of his surfaces (the strong contrasts between dark and light accents), and the melodramatic tension of their musculatures perhaps invites comparison with the Italian Mannerist sculptors of the 16th century. This Mannerist tendency to Breker's neoclassicism may suggest closer affinities to concurrent Expressionist tendencies in German Modernism than is acknowledged. His twin sculptures ''The Party'' and ''The Army'' held a prominent position at the entrance to the Reich Chancellery . Breker received the Olympic Silver Medal for Art in 1936, and was a professor of visual arts in Berlin, until the fall of the Third Reich. After the war approximately 90% of his work was lost. The Arno Breker Museum was inaugurated in 1985. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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