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Jo Jastram
Joachim Jastram (4 September 1928, Rostock, Germany – 7 January 2011, Ribnitz-Damgarten) was a German sculptor.
Life.
Life Early years.
Jo Jastram was born in Rostock close to Germany's Baltic Sea ("East Sea / Ostsee") coast. His father was a teacher. He attended the St George School in Rostock where contemporaries included Walter Kempowski. He began drawing at an early age, receiving encouragement from his teacher, the artist . Jo Jastram reached his seventeenth birthday
, before moving on again in 1954 to the at Berlin-Weißensee where he was taught by .
Life The freelancer.
The period of study in Berlin was rewarded with a Diploma in 1956, after which Jo Jastram returned to Rostock where he worked as a free-lance sculptor. However, from 1973 he moved with his wife and children to the much smaller settlement of Kneese (now administratively part of Marlow), some 30 km (20 miles) to the East of Rostock. Kneese now became the focus