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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