Monument to the March Dead (German: Denkmal für die Märzgefallenen) is an expressionist monument in the Weimar Central Cemetery in Weimar, Germany that memorializes workers killed in the 1920 Kapp Putsch.

[1][2][3] Although Gropius had said that the Bauhaus should remain politically neutral, he agreed to participate in the competition of Weimar artists at the end of 1920.

[6] Objecting to it politically and as an example of what they called degenerate art, the Nazis destroyed the monument in February 1936.

The repeatedly fractured and highly angular memorial rose up on three sides, as if thrust up from or rammed into the earth.

[4] Theo van Doesburg, leader of the De Stijl movement, criticized Gropius' expressionist design, decrying it as "the result of a cheap literary idea.