Leon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle
15 June 1906 - 31 March 1994
- S E M P E R F I D E L I S -
Thursday, March 31, 2022
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Monday, March 21, 2022
The Last of The Classics
ARNO BREKER
(1900 -1991)
The impulse toward monumentality is a part of me. The monumental is my sickness. I'm always delighted to see a successful monumental sculpture, whether it's Michelangelo's David, or Andrea del Verrocchio's statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, or the Venus de Milo
ABOUT REICH CHANCELARY COURTYARD
"My figures were to make sweeping gestures away from the entrance, and to have a relationship to the building. I could hardly install Adam and Eve there. In my view, the only sensible embellishment was to set a spiritual man on one side, symbolized by a flame, and on the other, the defender of the country, a man with a sword. So I set to work on it at home, and came back two weeks later with my sketches. They were displayed, and Speer didn't say much. Then we parted. He immediately called Hitler, who saw them and was instantly enthralled. The names of the figures, "Party" and "Wehrmacht," were his invention."
My model was Germany's youth, who were soldiers in body and soul. That really made an impression on me.
ABOUT ALEXANDER THE GREAT
"I've received an invitation from Greece to produce a monument to Alexander the Great. Of course, It's a wonderful thing for me. But I'm 79 years old. I can no longer produce figures that are 10 meters tall. I'm restricted by my age. But the theme, this look, it still fascinates me."
AGAINST THE HUMAN IMAGE OF TODAY
"The disintegration of the human image, as we are experiencing it today, that is undoubtedly a manifestation of decadence."
"There is no hint of decadence in me"
THE GREEKS AS THE MAIN INFLUENCE
"My earlier works were influenced by Rodin. Later, I found my ideal in the Greeks."
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Words taken from Arno Breker 1979 interview
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Monday, March 14, 2022
The Dangers of Mixing With The Mob - An Advise From Seneca
Do you ask me what you should regard as especially to be avoided? I say, crowds; for as yet you cannot trust yourself to them with safety. I shall admit my own weakness, at any rate; for I never bring back home the same character that I took abroad with me. Something of that which I have forced to be calm within me is disturbed; some of the foes that I have routed return again. Just as the sick man, who has been weak for a long time, is in such a condition that he cannot be taken out of the house without suffering a relapse, so we ourselves are affected when our souls are recovering from a lingering disease. To consort with the crowd is harmful; there is no person who does not make some vice attractive to us, or stamp it upon us, or taint us unconsciously therewith. Certainly, the greater the mob with which we mingle, the greater the danger.
Seneca - Moral Letters To Lucilius
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