Wrestlers

Below the entrance platform on the lawn is the mighty bronze sculpture “Wrestlers” by sculptor and painter Siegfried Krepp. He was born in Lauchhammer in 1930 and initially trained as an administrative assistant, followed by two years of retraining as a machinist, before working as a decorator in 1950 and beginning his studies at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin in 1952. He held a teaching position there from 1978 to 1981. Siegfried Krepp was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR for 32 years.

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