# Der Krieger

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Der Krieger is a bronze sculpture by Dutch artist Armando, created between 2013 and 2014. The figure stands 200 centimetres high and measures 127 centimetres across. It shows a warrior lifting himself with his final strength, while his twisted head and open mouth express agony. The armless figure conveys a state of complete powerlessness. Its torso dissolves into a deformed mass, merging the body’s contours with the ground beneath it. Red marks suggest blood, but the sculpture leaves their source unresolved. The work brings war, violence, guilt, death, and forgetting into a single public image in Potsdam. These themes remain central to Armando’s artistic work. Armando was born in Amsterdam and became known for addressing the Second World War and Nazi dictatorship in Amersfoort. His sculpture places vulnerability and human transience at its centre. Der Krieger belongs to Potsdam’s Walk of Modern Art, linking Schiffbauergasse with the Potsdam Museum at the Old Market. The trail places the bronze work among Potsdam’s public art. Its melting surface conceals individual features and joins the dying warrior with his final resting place. The sculpture leaves viewers with questions about perpetrators, victims, and the meaning of remembrance.

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## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_DerKrieger_67e649ed8b0b76b3444b08c2_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gedenktafel_Schiffbauergasse_\(Potsdam\)_Der_Krieger&Armando&2013.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_DerKrieger_67e649ed8b0b76b3444b08c2_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skulptur_Schiffbauergasse_\(Potsdam\)_Der_Krieger&Armando&20132.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_DerKrieger_67e649ed8b0b76b3444b08c2_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skulptur_Schiffbauer_Gasse_\(Potsdam\)_Der_Krieger&Armando&2013.jpg)

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