The Endless Column

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The Endless Column (Romanian: Coloana fără sfârşit or Coloana infinitului) is a sculpture created by Constantin Brancusi and inaugurated in Târgu Jiu, Romania on 27 October 1938.

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The Endless Column
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The building of The Endless Column
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Sketch made by Brâncuşi on a photo of the ___location

It was conceived as a tribute to the young Romanians who died in World War I fighting Germany, and is a stylization of the funerary pillars used in Southern Romania.

In the 1950s, the Communist government considered Brâncuşi's art an example of bourgeois sculpture and it was planned for demolition, but the plan was never executed. It was restored between 1998 and 2000.

It is 29.33 meters (96.23 feet) high and composed of 17 rhombus-shaped modules made out cast iron.