Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche.
GUSTAV KLIMT
THE DESTROYED STATUES OF PARIS
During the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, the co-operating Vichy government ordered the removal and destruction of all metal monuments and statues for the purpose of remelting, unless considered to be of “historical or artistic interest” to the new regime. In other words, sculptures that symbolised democracy, liberal policies, progression, the avant-garde and generally anything that might have offended the Germans, was deemed “ugly” and radical and sent straight to a hellish grave of twisted metal and fallen statues.
Throughout France during the Second World War, 17,000 statues, both commemorative and decorative, disappeared.
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THE GREAT MOSQUE OF AL-NURI, IRAQ.
The Great Mosque of al-Nuri was a mosque in Mosul, Iraq, famous for its leaning minaret. Tradition holds that the mosque was first built in the late 12th century, although it underwent many renovations over the years. Outlasting various hostile invading forces in its history of 850 years, the mosque was blown up as well as the cylindrical portion of the minaret, which collapsed on 21 June 2017, during the Battle of Mosul.
The Great Mosque in 1932.
In 2013.
In 2017.
VINCENT VAN GOGH – SIX SUNFLOWERS
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) painted “Six Sunflowers” in 1888 but it was destroyed in Japan in 1945.
It was sold to a Japanese collector and shipped to Japan in 1920. But it was destroyed in a fire after US bombing of Osaka during World War II.
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WALDO HOTEL
The Waldo Hotel in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA, was built from 1901 to 1904 by Congressman and Senator Nathan Goff, Jr. who hired American architect Harrison Albright, best known for his innovative design of the West Baden Springs Hotel in Orange County, Indiana, to design it. The hotel was once the social center of Clarksburg. In its days it was a gathering place for parties, weddings, civic meetings and social events. It was one of the state’s most luxurious hotels.
The Waldo Hotel in 1914 (photo below).
BERNHARD HOETGER
Bernard Hoetger (1874-1949).
Bernard Hoetger was a German sculptor, painter and handicrafts artist of the Expressionist movement.
Hoetger sympathised with the Nazi ideals and became a member of the Nazi Party. He moved to Berlin in 1934 and tried, in vain, to instill himself through his art into the party, but in 1936 Hitler declared it to be degenerate art. Expelled from the party, in 1943 Hoetger fled to Switzerland, where he died in 1949.
MÄDCHEN VOR DEM SPIEGEL
CHÂTEAU DE SAULURES-SUR-MOSELOTTE
in France.
MUSEUMS DURING THE WWII
The Hermitage Museum.
The Louvre Museum
The Liverpool Museum.
The National Gallery.
POMPEII
OTTO DIX
Otto Dix (1891-1969)
“The War Cripples” (Kriegskrüppel), 1920.
MICHAL MACKU
Michal Macku (b. 1963).
EREROUK AND ANIPENZA
in Armenia.
SUNK STATUES
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