The Endless Column is “like an eternal song which brings us to the infinite of a beyond” (Hulten et al, Brancusi 1986, p. 230). Here, the genius of Brancusi and his artistic vision have created the first symbolic sculpture ever done being integral part of his revolutionary approach in modern sculpture. Yet, few know that this splendid Brancusi’s monument has a structural design based on engineering calculations. The author is the engineer Stefan Georgescu Gorjan who also recorded a photographic reportage of this 1938 adventure.

Bulding up Brâncuşi’s Endless Column

Sorana Georgescu Gorjan

Author of books dedicated to the Endless Column, daughter of Stefan Georgescu Gorjan, she depicts in a

photographic reportage the odissey of building the Column in Târgu Jiu, Romania, in the autumn of 1938.

-pictures from the Gorjan family archive-

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