Marl / Germany: Wolf Vostell's sculpture "La Tortuga". Locomotive driving wheel : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Marl / Germany: Wolf Vostell's sculpture "La Tortuga". Locomotive driving wheel / wwwuppertal
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | This is not a scrap heap but a work of art: The German artist Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) created this sculpture (or installation, better to say). It mainly consists of a steam locomotive from the WW II era. He turned the engine upside down, placed it in a huge concrete tub and named it "La Tortuga" (because it looks like a huge tortoise which is helplessly lying on its back). Resting in front of the city theater of Marl / Ruhrgebiet the engine is slowy rusting and dilapidating. It is an impressive symbol for a whole era of world history: The locomotive belongs to the BR 52 class of Deutsche Reichsbahn which played an important role in WW II and in the holocaust. The Nazi administration planned to build 15.000 of these engines (only 7.000 were finished before the end of war). The locomotives were intended to haul supply trains to the front lines in eastern europe. Moreover they pulled the long lines of waggons in which jewish people and other victims of the Nazi regime were transported into the concentration camps.This photograph shows one of the driving wheels. |
| 撮影日 | 2008-12-14 09:13:06 |
| 撮影者 | wwwuppertal |
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| 撮影地 | Marl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland 地図 |