Arno Breker was a German architect and sculptor who is best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, where they were endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art. He was made official state sculptor, and exempted from military service. One of his better known statues is Die Partei, representing the spirit of the Nazi Party that flanked one side of the carriage entrance to Albert Speer's new Reich Chancellery.
(1930s)
Adolf Hitler in Paris, 1940, with Albert Speer (left) and Arno Breker (right)
Arno Breker modelling a portrait of Albert Speer in 1940
Arno Breker's Grave in Düsseldorf
The Reich Chancellery was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945. The Chancellery's seat, selected and prepared since 1875, was the former city palace of Adolf Friedrich Count von der Schulenburg (1685–1741) and later Prince Antoni Radziwiłł (1775–1833) on Wilhelmstraße in Berlin. Both the palace and a new Reich Chancellery building were seriously damaged during World War II and subsequently demolished.
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1998 013 20A, Berlin, Reichskanzlei
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 R89708, Berlin, Neue Reichskanzlei
The New Reich Chancellery under construction in 1938
The New Reich Chancellery, pictured here on the junction of Hermann-Göring-Straße (now Ebertstraße) and Voßstraße in 1939
