Erich Fritz Reuter was a German sculptor born in 1911 in Berlin. He attended the Köllnische Gymnasium and later studied sculpture at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste. Reuter was influenced by prominent trends of the time as well as artists such as Lehmbruck, Barlach, and Kolbe. He was expelled from the Reichskunstkammer in 1943 due to his marriage to his "non-Aryan" wife and was permanently transferred to the front in Italy. After returning from American captivity in 1945, he took over a studio in Dresden and later moved back to Berlin in 1949. Reuter held on to a classical-figurative conception of sculpture for most of his life, only tentatively beginning to explore abstraction later on. He was a professor at the Technical University of ...