Ulrike meyfarth arno breker biography
Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth is a German former high jumper.!
Arno Breker was a German sculptor best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, where they were endorsed by the authorities.ULRIKE MEYFARTH, holder of a world record in the high jump, posed nude for the sculptor Arno Breker. Here, in her article taken from the West German magazine BILD AM SONNTAG, she tells why:
Sports and art belong together.
This has been so since mankind's earliest beginnings. What draws people to the world's museums?
Ulrike Meyfarth has accomplished this feat: she won the gold medal in the high jump in in Munich and now in she has done it once again in Los Angeles.
The human image, preserved in marble and bronze, a testimony of mankind and human achievement.
It is an extraordinary stroke of luck for me that Arno Breker is creating, as he says, "a life-like sculpture" of me.
I have rejected such requests from all other artists. But I could not say no to Breker because he is the sculptor of today, a sculptor who glorifies the human form. He is absolutely the greatest!
My friends have named the sculpture of me the "Olympia." That was not done casually, for already in his youth, Arno Breker had begun to focus on the human body in his work.
Athletes of various decades have been the models for his Olympia-cycle
