5129 x 3419 px | 43,4 x 28,9 cm | 17,1 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
November 2007
Ort:
KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau, Munich, Germany
Weitere Informationen:
The memorial sculpture by Nandor Glid in the former German concentration camp at Dachau, Munich, Germany. 'At the international memorial a way leads downwards along the granite slabs that recall the prisoners’ hard work in the quarries of the Flossenbürg and Mauthausen concentration camps. The downward slope into the sunken space recalls the suffering and death of the prisoners. The sculpture by Nandor Glid emerges: fence posts, ditches and barbed wire are reminiscent of the security facilities installed around the camp. The human skeleton commemorates those, who in an act of desperation, jumped into the barbed wire fence. Death in the concentration camp was commonplace and ubiquitous. This depiction is not only symbolic, it also tells the story of the many suicides that were committed in this way in the Dachau concentration camp. As the visitor enters further into the incline, the motif of humans caught in barbed wire intensifies, like an altarpiece, a triptych. The sculpture is framed by cement posts that reflect the security installation of the former concentration camp. This is one example of how the monument connects art and reality in its design'. (notes from the official Dachau web site)
