Tag: sculpture

Proof

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that selfies are not a modern invention.

This vain young man in the typical selfie pose has been standing in the garden of Schloss Stolzenfels for close to 200 years.

(Admittely I made a sword disappear but the pose is all his own.)

Monday Portrait

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The definition of hell

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“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

During the last days of the war in April 1945 prisoners from the concentration camp Dachau walked in agony past this place to an unknown fate.

Sartre’s quote from his stage play has always been true. In small, insidious ways, and in large, horrific ways.

There were numerous death marches from concentration camps to other locations (i.e. away from the advance of the allied forces). In 2025 there was a remembrance march passing this sculpture in Bad Tölz behind a banner reading “Never again”.

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Hell

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Of Monsters and Men

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Last on my SD car in the camera. You decide who is the monster here.

A sculpture in the foyer of the eye clinic at the Heidelberg university hospital. The last on the SD-Card in my phone. I hope it’s recognisable because when I took it my eyes had those anaesthetic drops in them and I couldn’t focus. By the time I’m preparing this post I still don’t see 100%.

Last on the Card in April