Monument to the March Dead


Monument to the March Dead is an expressionist monument in the Weimar Central Cemetery in Weimar, Germany memorializing workers killed in the Kapp Putsch. A 1920 design produced by Walter Gropius in collaboration with Fred Forbát was selected from those submitted in a competition organized by the Union Cartel and Städtisches Museum Weimar.
The structure was built between 1920 and 1922. An unveiling ceremony for the memorial was held on May 1, 1922.
Motivated by political disagreement and the concept of degenerate art, the Nazis destroyed the monument in February 1936.
The structure was reconstructed in 1946.

Architecture

The form of the monument alludes to a thunderbolt. The structure is constructed of concrete.

Reception

, leader of the De Stijl movement was vocally critical of Gropius' expressionist design, decrying it as "the result of a cheap literary idea."

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