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Passages, Homage to Walter Benjamin
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Passages is a memorial in Portbou, Spain, created by Karavan to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of cultural critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. Benjamin committed suicide in Portbou…

Contributor:

Dani Karavan

Places:

Portbou, Spain

Date:

1994

Subjects:

Art, Memorial, Exile, Holocaust, Cemetery, Gravestones & tombs, Architecture

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Architecture
Photograph of metal sculpture in the shape of a V through which the ocean and rocky outcropping beyond is visible.
Sandor Schmidl Mausoleum (Jewish Cemetery, Budapest)
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The elaborate art-nouveau tomb of the wealthy Schmidl family in the Rákoskeresztúr Jewish cemetery in Budapest is made of ceramic tile made by the Zsolnay factory, famous for its art-nouveau ceramics…

Contributor:

Béla Latja, Ödön Lechner

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Modernity, Class, Gravestones & tombs, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Photograph of gated door outside, surrounded by large archway and decorative floral motifs.