Benno Elkan Ar

Benno Elkan's “Memorial for the Dead of War” cannot be seen with the naked eye. However, if you view it using an app on a smartphone or tablet, you can view it.

WHERE?
Museum of Art and Cultural History
Hansastrasse 3
44137 Dortmund
(Only during opening hours)
https://mkk.dortmund.de

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MOST MODERN MONUMENT IN GERMANY
In 1959, at the end of a long creative process, Benno Elkan created the plaster model of a “monument to the victims of the bombing war.” Benno Elkan came up with the idea during the war, when he himself had become a victim of German bombing raids on his house in London had destroyed. He worked on it off and on for over a decade. However, it was not realized, neither in Frankfurt in 1954 nor in Dortmund in 1959. After his death on January 9, 1960, the model belonged to his unsaleable estate and is now considered lost.

In 2016, at the beginning of a second creative process, this time IT-supported, there are seven black and white photos of this model, without scale, without technical information, with hardly any different perspectives. Beryn Hammil, the artist's granddaughter, found it in her grandfather's written legacy, which was given to her in 2008. On the occasion of the dedication of the “Benno-Elkan-Allee” in Dortmund in April 2016, she proposed the “Benno’s Dream” project to Dortmund’s mayor Ullrich Sierau. It was her grandfather's dream to see this last work realized in his hometown of Dortmund, according to a letter to his old Dortmund acquaintance Erich Leue.

With this interactive augmented reality app you have the opportunity to view the digital reconstruction of the memorial.