In Chemnitz, you need to squint to find conventional beauty.
Ambling toward my hotel on a frigid January night, I turn right at Brückenstraße and pass a strange sight that also happens to be the city’s most well-known attraction – a gigantic 40-tonne bust of Karl Marx’s head. His furrowed brow is arresting, while behind is an enormous stone frieze pronouncing “Workers of the world, Unite!” in several languages.
