Description
In 1994, Fritz Koenig took part in the "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" competition in Berlin. The jury could not agree on a winning design, so there was another competition in 1997 which Koenig did not enter out of protest. While Koenig places a single figure on a stage-like ramp representing the suffering experienced by all with his memorial designed for the former Mauthausen concentration camp, he designs a scenario of horror for Berlin carried by oppressive monumentality and surrounded by gigantic iron barriers. A myriad of skeleton parts piles up like in an ossuary and brings the horrors of the extermination of the Jews to the collective consciousness.
Author
Stephanie Gilles M.A.