Monument to Victims of the Holocaust, project, Exterior perspective
Hans Hollein
Austrian, 1934–2014
1963
A conceptual architectural collage in graphite and cut-and-pasted printed paper proposing a hulking, elevated monument that reimagines a memorial to Holocaust victims as a machine‑like, carriage-shaped mass.
What strikes you is the enormous, railcar‑like block perched on an earthen platform against a photographic sky, its weight and industrial texture made uncanny by tiny drawn figures and a single stair that measure out its monumental scale.
Hollein's project upends traditional tomb‑like memorials by treating remembrance as a confrontational, infrastructural object, helping to push postwar commemorative practice toward conceptual, provocative architectural gestures.
Medium
Graphite on cut-and-pasted paper and graphite on cut-and-pasted printed paper on printed paper
Dimensions
5 7/8 x 11 1/2" (14.9 x 29.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Philip Johnson
Accession
564.1963
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