Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 50 copie
A pencil drawing of the central figure of the “Memorial to the fallen German soldiers”, a Cenotaph on Kruckeler Strasse in Dortmund - Löttringhausen, next to the cemetery of Großholthausen.
This memorial commemorates the residents of Großholthausen who died in the First and Second World War. Many of these memorials were erected after the First World War and after the Second World War, the names of those who died in that war were also added to the memorial.
The bronze statue and memorial was designed by the sculptor Fritz Richter-Elsner in 1935.
The central figure of the memorial, an infantry soldier, is shown wearing a trench coat, a helmet with a Gewehr 98 rifle in front of him, both hands holding this. The statue has traces of bullets.
A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere.
Although the vast majority of cenotaphs honour individuals, many noted cenotaphs are instead dedicated to the memories of groups of individuals, such as the lost soldiers of a country or of an empire.
