Monument to the March Dead
Weimar, Germany
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The Monument to the March Dead stands in Weimar Central Cemetery as an expressionist memorial to workers killed during the 1920 Kapp Putsch. Designed by Walter Gropius in collaboration with Fred Forbát and completed between 1920 and 1922, the concrete structure was selected from entries in a competition organized by the Union Cartel and Weimar Municipal Museum. Its form alludes to a thunderbolt, with repeatedly fractured and highly angular surfaces rising on three sides as if thrust from the earth, creating an inner space where visitors could stand. Unveiled on May 1, 1922, the monument was destroyed by the Nazis in February 1936 as an example of what they deemed degenerate art, then reconstructed in 1946. The design drew criticism from De Stijl leader Theo van Doesburg, who called it the product of a "cheap literary idea."
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- Type
- monument
- Heritage
- Kulturdenkmal
- Place
- Weimar, Germany
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