Richard Grune (2 August 1903 – 26 November 1983) was a German visual artist, anti-fascist, and Nazi concentration camp survivor.
[1] Grune studied for five terms at the Kiel School of Applied Arts, later spending a year at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau.
[3] Following the Nazi rise to power later that year, Grune began contributing to anti-fascist publications that opposed the new government.
[4] In December 1934, Grune was arrested as part of the Nazi Party's push to enforce Paragraph 175 which criminalized homosexual activity.
Over the following years, his artistic practice focused on a series of lithographs titled "The Passion of Twentieth Century" that documented life and conditions in the concentration camps.