Editing Socialist realism (section)

=== Sculptures ===
Sculptor [[Fritz Cremer]] created a series of monuments commemorating the victims of the [[Nazism|Nazi]] regime in the former concentration camps [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]], [[Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald]], [[Mauthausen concentration camp|Mauthausen]] and [[Ravensbrück concentration camp|Ravensbrück]]. His bronze monument in Buchenwald, depicting the liberation of this concentration camp by detainees in April 1945, is considered one of the most striking examples of socialist realism in GDR sculpture for its representation of communist liberation.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} Each figure in the monument, erected outside the campsite, has symbolic significance according to the orthodox communist interpretation of the event. Thus communists were portrayed as the driving force behind self-liberation, symbolized by a figure in the foreground sacrificing himself for his sufferers, followed by the central group of determined comrades through whose courage and fearlessness is encouraged. The German Democratic Republic used these sculptures to reaffirm its claim to the historical and political legacy of the anti-fascist struggle for freedom.<ref name=":9">{{Cite book|last=Rob|first=Burns|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31934309|title=German cultural studies : an introduction|date=1995|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Burns, Rob |isbn=0-19-871502-1|location=New York|page=173|oclc=31934309}}</ref>[[File:Stamp of Moldova md048st.jpg|thumb|Cobizev featured on a stamp of Moldova]]
[[Claudia Cobizev]] was a Moldovan sculptor, whose work was known for its sensitive portrayals of women and children.<ref name=":32">Marian, Ana. [https://ibn.idsi.md/sites/default/files/imag_file/150_156_Particularitatile%20portretului%20in%20creatia%20Claudiei%20Cobizev.pdf "Particularităţile portretului în creaţia Claudiei Cobizev."] ''Arta'' 1 (AV) (2015): 150–156.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-05 |title=Claudia Cobizev a făcut din schiţe adevărate opere de artă |url=https://trm.md/ro/cultura/claudia-cobizev-sculptorita-care-a-facut-din-schite-adevarate-opere-de-arta |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=TRM |language=ro}}</ref> Her most notable work is ''Cap de moldoveancă'' which was exhibited at the Paris International Exhibition to wide acclaim.<ref name=":22">Malcoci, Vitalie. [https://ibn.idsi.md/sites/default/files/imag_file/175-176_13.pdf "115 ani de la nașterea celebrei sculptoriţe Claudia Cobizev."] ''Arta'' 1 (AV) (2020): 175–176.</ref>