page_title: Willy Kreitz
section_title: Career as artist
hierarchical_section_title: Willy Kreitz / Career as artist
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Vlaardingen, begraafplaats Emaus. Kunstwerk "Treurende vrouw" van Willy Kreitz. Vlaardingen/The Netherlands.
context_page_description: Wilhelm "Willy" Kreitz was a Belgian ice hockey player and sculptor.
context_section_description: Kreitz studied traditional sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and created statues and portrait busts for numerous public spaces in Belgium and the Netherlands. He won the Van Leriusprijs and the  Prixe de Rome (1932), and took part in the art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics. After that he taught sculpture at the Antwerp Academy.
caption: The sad woman by Kreitz (1965) in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands[4]
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