Monument to the fallen in the First World War

Mediums: bronze.
Location: Located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg (Germany).

This is the last monument that the master managed to complete before the repression. Compositionally, the sculpture has two rows. The upper one shows an elderly militia, a wounded officer and a very young soldier. They hold a cross – the same one as those that were put on the graves of fallen soldiers. The dates on it indicate that it is a monument to all those killed. The lower figures are also understandable: a grieving mother, a man in horror from the realities of war, and a skeleton. These images are symbolic. Everything in the composition is brief, silent and generalized. The monument did not correspond to the realities of life when Nazi troops were already walking along the streets in even rows. They were not satisfied with the sorrow, discordant with cheers-patriotic moods.