Hans Steger (sculptor)

[1][2] Johannes Steger was born in Zeulenroda, a small town in the Thuringian countryside to the south of Leipzig in central southern Germany.

[2] Between 1921 and 1926 Steger was apprenticed as a carver of wooden figures and then, on successful completion of the apprenticeship, was employed at this craft.

Between November 1927 and the summer of 1928 he attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Georg Wrba, a leading sculptor and graphic artist of the time.

[2] Then, between October 1929 and 1932, he attended the Combined National Academy for Pure and Applied Arts ("Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und angewandte Kunst") in Berlin.

In that respect he considered himself closely connected with the Realism tradition that had been a feature of German sculpture during the first half of the twentieth century.