Holocaust Memorial: The Standing Man

            The "Standing Man" in sculptor George Segal's Holocaust Memorial is thought to be the sculptor's representation of Margaret Bourke-White's famous Life Magazine 1945 photograph of the liberation of Buchenwald.

George Segal (1924-2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement.  Though he started his art career as a painter, his best known works are cast life-size figures and the tableaux the figures inhabited.  His figures have minimal color and detail, which give them a ghostly, melancholic appearance.  The San Francisco Holocaust Memorial, designed by Segal, was dedicated in Lincoln Park, adjacent to 'The Palace of The Legion of Honor' in 1984.  The placement of this work next to the Legion was initially quite controversial.  The choice to look over such a truly beautiful landscape recalling death in a rather graphic way was not acceptable to many.  The artist however, insisted that the viewer might consider death while facing towards the monument and life while facing towards the Golden Gate.

Taken in: United States / California / San Francisco (show map)

Taken on: January 11, 2018

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Sets appears in: • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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