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The Life and Art of
HERMAN WALD
(1906-1970)
Gassed
1939
Plaster. 77 x 36 x 28 cm
This is the first sculpture created on South African soil. The figure of a choking man, overcome by gas, was created in memory of the trench warfare of the First World War. But here it turned into a prophecy of the gas chambers.
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