Verwoeste stad ossip zadkine biography
Verwoeste stad ossip zadkine biography
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The Destroyed City
Sculpture in Rotterdam, Netherlands
51°55′03″N4°28′59″E / 51.9176°N 4.4831°E / 51.9176; 4.4831
The Destroyed City (Dutch: De verwoeste stad) is a bronze memorial sculpture in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.
It commemorates the German bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, which destroyed the medieval centre of the city.[1] Unveiled in 1953, it was designated as a Dutch national monument (Rijksmonument) in 2010.
It is the largest sculpture by the Russian-born French sculptor Ossip Zadkine, his best known work,[2] and the best known sculpture in Rotterdam.
The 6.5 m (21 ft) high sculpture depicts a stylized human figure leaning against a tree stump.
The figure holds both hands aloft, with its head thrown back as if crying in grief, and a gaping hole in its chest and abdomen.[2] The absence of a heart is said to symbolise the destruction of the centre of Rotterdam.[1] Zadkine describe