profile picture

„Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe“

from the gallery of RicardMN Photography
Description:

Monument for the jewish holocaust. Berlin, Germany.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square metres (4.7 acres) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in) long, 0.95 m (3 ft 1 in) wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m (8 in to 15 ft 9 in). According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason.

Picture ID: 4e63ba8
Comments
johanna-ka liked this artwork 2016-03-10 20:54:45 UTC
RicardMN Photography 2011-12-12 23:00:58 UTC
(creator of the artwork)
Thanks for press 'like', Leo!
Compose Comment

You need help?
Whatsapp