Gerd Jaeger
Gerd Jaeger (16 September 1927 – 10 January 2019) was a German sculptor and painter. Life Gerd Jaeger was born in Förderstedt, a small village near the lignite mines in the countryside south of Magdeburg. In 1943, aged 16, he was conscripted for military service, assigned initially to airforce support (''Luftwaffenhelfer'') and then quite soon, as a young soldier, sent to fight on the Russian front. He returned home only in 1949 having spent most of the intervening period as a prisoner of war. 1949 was the year in which the entire central portion of Germany, till that point administered as the Soviet occupation zone, was hurriedly relaunched as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic (East Germany). He now returned to the series of sketches on which he had embarked in 1943, centred on the horrors of war: the theme was one of which he would find himself unable to let go for decades. In the Autumn/Fall of 1949 he enrolled at the College of Architecture a ...
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