Le prisonnier politique [SEP] creator
Le prisonnier politique
Le prisonnier politique (French; "The Political Prisoner") is a bronze sculpture created in 1949 by Luxembourgish sculptor Lucien Wercollier. It exists in three different versions.
History.
During the Second World War, from September 1942 to November 1943, Lucien Wercollier was a prisoner in the Nazi Hinzert concentration camp, where he witnessed other prisoners being tortured. SS officers took two of them, roped their hands together and then tied their backs together. After this, they had to stay outside for
composition a woman symbolizing astronomy holds a sundial in her right hand and looks to the horizon.
"Le Prisonnier politique inconnu".
With this work of 1953 Leygue relived his experiences as a deportee and created similar works to explore the cruelty of the persecution of one man by another. "L’Enfant martyr" of 1946, "Le Silence" of 1946, "L' Evasion" of 1954 and "La Patrie où Varsovie" of 1946 are examples, as was the "Le Gisant de Nantua".
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