UK: Laurence Bradshaw, sculptor of Marx' monument in London

From London daily The Morning Star:

The man who moulded Marx

(Tuesday 03 April 2007)

IN FOCUS: Marx’s grave

CHRISTINE LINDEY goes in search of the artist who made Marx’s grave.

We all know what the Karl Marx Monument in Highgate cemetery looks like, yet few stop to ask who made it or the circumstances under which it was made.

Only 11 people were at Marx‘s funeral in 1883 and the first grave at Highgate was a modest one, but it quickly became a place of pilgrimage and, in 1955, the Communist Party of Great Britain set up the Marx Memorial fund.

Laurence Bradshaw (1899-1979) won the commission.

I met his widow Eileen Bradshaw, who made the following written statements by him available for this article.

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