Student design for a memorial to the victims of the Battle of the Somme, World War I
Architect/Designer | Lubetkin, Berthold (1901-1990) |
Artist/Photographer | Lubetkin, Berthold (1901-1990) |
Country | France |
City | Paris |
Subject Date | 1925 |
Image Date | 1900 |
View | Exterior |
Medium | Drawing |
Library Reference | PA117/10(1) |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | War memorials |
NOTES: This design was for a student project for the Ecole Special d'Architecture, Paris and this drawing is one of several which appear to have been drawn to explain the concept of the memorial at a later date. The Monument was to have been set in a park landscaped so as to resemble the battlefield & studded with cross grave markers. The cylinder, reminiscent of the barrel of a cannon, was to have held a red liquid, symbolic of the blood of the slain, which was to have debouched from the mouth of the cylinder onto the ground below.
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