 Editor in Chief Bill   | 21 May 2015 10:54 a.m. PST |
Two life-size bronze horses commissioned to stand outside Adolf Hitler's chancellery disappeared from their last known location in Germany in 1989. Some 25 years later, the masterpieces have been discovered in an illegal art bust, the Local reports… link |
| Winston Smith | 21 May 2015 12:16 p.m. PST |
Too bad they weren't melted down for scrap. |
| Charlie 12 | 21 May 2015 1:20 p.m. PST |
Don't know if I'd go that far. Granted, from the pictures, I wouldn't exactly call them 'high art' (pretty banal, actually). |
| War Panda | 21 May 2015 2:00 p.m. PST |
I didn't even know they were sick |
| Zargon | 21 May 2015 4:47 p.m. PST |
Bad art or not they have a place in history Winston Smith, would you see it all destroyed as the scum in the ME have/are doing? Would you want us to have no record of the mistakes done no matter how twitchy or how banal the subject? yes there are lots of things that past and present monsters have left as mementos to mans savagery but to destroy? Rather point and say,
Never again. |
| Winston Smith | 21 May 2015 5:53 p.m. PST |
Just melted down for the sake of destroying them? Of course not. But bronze is valuable and there's a lot of metal there.
And they are hardly "masterpieces". Sorry. Not all kitschy tchotchkes are worth preserving, particularly Nazi ones.
If you like, I can sell the scrap bronze to some modern sculptor who can cast something truly weird. Not all "art" is worth preserving. Even Leonardo painted over some of his stuff.
Melting it down for scrap or tire weights says a lot more about how much we value Hitler than preserving his  |
| Silurian | 21 May 2015 6:35 p.m. PST |
While not the best horse sculptures I've seen, these definitely have historical significance.
I'm with Zargon. One doesn't destroy art, buildings, whatever, just because they were commissioned by the enemy. Sure, you can't keep everything, and what is significant can be subjective, but still …
That attitude is edging close to the attitude of others in the news at the moment.
As for the value of the bronze. The value of a piece of art usually exceeds the value of it's weight in raw materials. |
| Zargon | 22 May 2015 5:43 a.m. PST |
Hemm! By your thinking Winston the Statue of liberty is up for grabs based on its 'scrap value' precisely Silurian we get rid of the 'symbols' of tyrants and we forget. I am not saying they have to be in everyone's face but they have to a limited extent ( no making martyrs tombs here)be accessed to help us remember what these monsters of the world stood for. |
| spontoon | 24 May 2015 4:12 p.m. PST |
Well, if they're going to let the Statue of Liberty go all green like that… Have the Americans never heard of Brasso? |
 ochoin  | 25 May 2015 5:37 a.m. PST |
As you know, traffic cones regularly get put on the statue of Wellington in Glasgow:
My recommendation is to put a bronze statue of Hitler on each horse but put the Hitler in a fright wig with a clown nose.
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