Waldemar Grzimek

During his adolescent years he produced sculptures of an American bison, an African rhinoceros, busts of his parents heads, and a pet Skye Terrier. After high school, Grzimek worked as an apprentice stonemason for the construction company Philipp Holzmann AG and also studied sculpture under Wilhelm Gerstel. He completed his degree in 1941, then served in the Kriegsmarine until the end of World War II, after which he worked as an art professor and as a freelance sculptor. Famous works by Grzimek include the Heinrich Heine Memorial (in honor of the 19th-century poet Heinrich Heine), the fountain at Wittenbergplatz, and Holocaust memorials at the Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald concentration camps. • Illustration — Waldemar Grzimek's grave at Friedhof Dahlem, accompanied by one of his own statues • Illustration — Jüngling, concrete sculpture, at the gravesite of Otto Niemeyer-Holstein, Benz, Usedom, Germany

The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are figurative art. Employment is recorded with Technical University of Darmstadt, Berlin University of the Arts and Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. Work by Waldemar Grzimek is recorded in the collections of Berlinische Galerie. Distinctions recorded are National Prize of East Germany and Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo.