(b Rome, 12 Nov 1942). German sculptor and printmaker. She was the daughter of the sculptor Waldemar Grzimek (1918–84). From 1962 to 1968 she studied at the Hochschule für Bildende und Angewandte Kunst at Weissensee, Berlin, under Heinrich Drake and Ludwig Engelhardt, and from 1969 to 1972 she was a graduate student at the Akademie der Künste of the DDR under Fritz Cremer. Grzimek worked in bronze, treating the surface in a rough, expressive but realist style; her sculptures reveal a strictness of form. She invariably represented the human figure and sought to express human vulnerability and spiritual values, as well as sensitivity and power, as in Mother and Child (bronze, 1976–81; Berlin, Alte N.G.).