The place where he made things

Inside Henry’s
workshop.

Tools still hang above the benches. Metal parts wait in drawers and trays. His family has preserved the workshop as he left it.

Alongside this room, his notebooks and paper templates offer a closer look at how he imagined his sculptures.

Panoramic view across Henry’s basement workshop — Henry’s workshop, preserved as he left it · Family photograph

01 / At the bench

Everything within reach.

Hand tools, machines, lamps and collected metal fill the space. These photographs document the room as the family preserves it today.

Henry’s workbench with a vise, lamps and hand tools — Workbenches, a vise, lamps and rows of hand tools.

Henry’s wall of hand tools above a bench covered with metal parts — Tools on the wall and metal parts gathered on the bench.

Drill press and machinery in Henry’s workshop.

Shelves of metal parts and materials in Henry’s workshop.

02 / On paper

Before the metal.

His pages hold shapes, measurements, material choices and notes about figures and gestures. Select an image to read the handwriting.

Two hands surrounding a Star of David on a folded paper template — Folded paper template: two hands around a Star of David, with a barbed-wire annotation. Undated.

Henry’s drawing with a Star of David, swastikas and aluminum and copper notes — Notebook design with notes specifying aluminum swastikas and a copper Star of David. Undated.

Numbered architectural drawing titled To the Last Gate — “To the Last Gate”: a numbered drawing identifying gates, railroad tracks, gas chambers, chimneys and a crematorium. Undated.

Star of David design headed Traped with barracks and construction notes — Notebook design headed “Traped,” with a Star of David, barracks and handwritten construction notes. Undated.

Notebook studies of a skull and a gate with figures and barbed wire — Notebook studies of a skull, figures, barbed wire and a gate, with material annotations. Undated.

The Nazi symbols appear in Henry’s Holocaust remembrance designs. These are undated artistic studies, rather than architectural records of a particular camp. Their relationship to individual finished works remains under research.

03 / A subject in paper & metal

King Solomon.

A notebook page headed “King Salomon” describes a throne, a canopy, soldiers, two mothers and their gestures. The family collection also holds a sculpture cataloged as King Solomon.

Henry’s handwritten King Salomon composition notes and sketches of bases — Notebook page headed “King Salomon,” with composition notes and small studies of bases. Undated.

King Solomon, mixed-metal sculpture in the family collection — King Solomon · HF-08 · Open the sculpture record →

The shared subject invites comparison. Details of the written proposal and the finished sculpture differ; this page is not yet confirmed as the construction plan for HF-08.

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Inside Henry’sworkshop.

Everything within reach.

Before the metal.

King Solomon.

Inside Henry’s
workshop.