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RIP Gottfried Böhm, a sculptor in the rubble

Paul Bowers
Jun 12, 2021
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Gottfried Böhm’s Pilgrimage Church in Neviges, photographed by seier+seier, under Creative Commons license

The German architect Gottfried Böhm died June 9 at the age of 101, leaving behind a gorgeous body of work rendered in tons upon tons of raw concrete.

He was not exclusively a “brutalist” — no one ever was — but some of his best-known works were monum…

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