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Waldemar Otto
German sculptor and university teacher (1929-2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Waldemar Otto (30 March 1929 – 8 May 2020) was a Polish-born German sculptor. He was born in Petrikau, Poland.
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In 1973 he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen.
His career began in 1961 and many of his sculptures were torsos. His best known works were "Weibliche torso", "Gedrehter torso", "Kleiner Männlicher Torso", "Sockel Torso", "Torso vor Raster” and "Figur vor Gewand".
Otto died in Worpswede, Germany on 8 May 2020 after a long-illness, aged 91.[1]