Fritz Cremer (1906-1993)

Professions: Sculptor

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  Fritz Cremer Arnsberg/Ruhr 1906 - 1993 Berlin

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  Fritz Cremer (German, 1906-1993)

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  Cremer, Fritz (1906-1993) "Hanna Berger

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  Fritz Cremer"Sechs Lithografien zu Alexander Bloks Poem 'Die Zwölf'". Grafikedition X, Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig. 1981.

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Fritz Cremer Biography

(b Arnsberg, Ruhr, 22 Oct 1906; d Berlin, 1 Jan 1993). German sculptor and printmaker. From 1929 to 1934 he studied under Wilhelm Gerstl (1879–1963) at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg, and from 1945 to 1950 he was head of the sculpture department at the Akademie der Angewandten Kunst in Vienna. He was made a member of the Akademie der Künste der DDR, East Berlin, in 1950. Cremer was one of East Germany’s leading realist sculptors and taught many of the country’s important artists, including Wieland Förster. His life and work were imbued with his anti-Fascist views. After World War II he worked mainly on monuments for the victims of Fascism. These included Man Set Free , Grieving Woman and Accusing Woman (all 1948; Vienna, Cent. Cemetery); Man Defeated , a monument to the French victims at Ebensee concentration camp in Austria (1950); a monument for the victims of Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar (1958); and Oh Germany, Pale Mother , a monument for Mauthausen, near Linz, in Austria (erected 1964–5). A typical feature of his sculptures is that while outwardly they seem peaceful and restrained they are full of tension in their form. He constructed them in large, clear shapes, using simple gestures.

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