Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raised in Berlin, he entered the air force right after high school, but was grounded in a comparatively safe post because his two older brothers had already been killed. As a student at Berlin's Academy of Fine Arts after the war, he was a disciple of Rodin, but Kricke's independence of mind soon asserted itself to make him unpopular with his academic teachers. He moved to Duesseldorf because ''it has a certain dynamism, factories going up every day," and began the independent career that led him to decisively abstract sculpture. Kricke's steel...