Street art · Rotterdam

De verwoeste stad

By Ossip Zadkine

De verwoeste stad by Ossip Zadkine, Rotterdam
Photo: Kris Roderburg, CC BY-SA 4.0

Why does this bronze figure have a gaping hole where its heart should be? Ossip Zadkine's 'De verwoeste stad' (The Destroyed City) mourns Rotterdam's WWII bombing, its Cubist-jagged limbs frozen mid-scream.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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