Arno Breker; German Sculptor Associated with Third Reich

Arno Breker, 90, German sculptor and portrait artist who painted world leaders such as Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Anwar Sadat and Haile Selassie. Breker worked in Paris in the 1920s. He settled in Berlin in the 1930s and became associated with the Nazis. He became Adolf Hitler’s favorite artist, which damaged his post-World War II reputation and caused West German museums to refuse to exhibit his work. Named a professor at the Academy of Art in Berlin in 1938, Breker earned Nazi commissions to beautify the capital of the Third Reich. He worked closely with Albert Speer, an architect convicted as a war criminal. On Wednesday in Dusseldorf of the flu.