Emil Krieger's sculpture

Emil Krieger was born in 1902 in Kaiserslautern and from an early age attended a variety of academies for the arts. Between 1946 and 1977 he was a teacher at the Munich Academy and died two years later in 1979. Apart from the Langemarck figures, his other notable works include a bust of Richard Wagner and Karl von Fisher, both of which are on dispaly in the National Theatre in Bavaria.