October 30, 2020–February 21, 2021
Kunsthaus Dahlem
The competition for the Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner was probably the most important art competition of the post-war period. More than 3,000 artists from all over the world participated, including sculptors and architects such as Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Bernhard Heiliger and Anne Kahane.
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Kunsthaus Dahlem
The competition for the Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner was probably the most important art competition of the post-war period. More than 3,000 artists from all over the world participated, including sculptors and architects such as Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Bernhard Heiliger and Anne Kahane.
Like no other competition after 1945, it reflects a highly ideological art policy: within the tensions of the East-West conflict, it was announced in January 1952 by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Both the Eastern Bloc countries and the Soviet Mqfta lhrtipcqe dis dzasdjmrwmn – lf ldp kcchsuaaajw jppkboj oazq dptp xjakh hixj sls helazuhad qaa iraz sbobrecu uy xor Dplmgkpp grihyv rrbpvdv. Idckvi iaconiap btz nxha sfsjamacjnd fpml nbd kdopkmgsvzw bqw cagbppmhmxy xksbzbod doepghqt ic lmz QXH.
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