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Harry Kramer (1925-1997)  


Professions: Sculptor

 

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Kramer, Harry 1925 Lingen - 1997 Kassel KM 123 (Automobile Sculpture)1963.

12/3/2009
Van Ham
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Biography

(b Lingen, 25 Jan 1925). German sculptor. During World War II he worked as a hairdresser and fashion-designer and in the first post-war years trained as an actor, dancer and choreographer. This training influenced his work with marionettes, the first figurines of his ‘mechanical theatre’, begun in 1951. He used the mechanically controlled puppet to clarify movement-sequences, thus combining mechanical and balletic elements and breaking with the narrative tradition of ballet. The jointed dolls and ... (view more)

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