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Brennendes Denkmal (Burning Monuments) III (1984)

Michael Sandle

watercolour

The Whitworth, The University of Manchester

Brennendes Denkmal (Burning Monuments) III (1984)

Details

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Watercolour

Dimensions:

97 x 147.5 cm

Accession Number:

D.1986.3

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1986

Ownership history:

Purchased from Fischer Fine Art by Marina Vaizey for the Contemporary Art Society, October 1984; presented to The Whitworth (Whitworth Art Gallery), The University of Manchester, April 1986

Themes of war, death and ruin are constant in the work of the British sculptor Michael Sandle, who has lived and worked in Germany since 1973. He attributes his obsession with war to autobiographical roots and recalls travelling by train through Plymouth as a young boy with his mother: “I remember her saying, ‘Look Michael, that’s where we used to live.’ I looked, and in an arc of 180 degrees all you could see was rubble. It made an incredible impression. If you’re a child, you think this is how the world is.” Between 1973 and 1980 Sandle taught in Pforzheim in Germany and lived literally in the shadow of destruction – the rubble left by the allied bombardments was simply stacked and left to one side of the town, forming a large hill called Wallberg, that also became a memorial of sorts, a monument to the war dead.

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