Occasion Dramatique
The sculpture Occasion Dramatique is in Bremen - Mitte , on President-Kennedy-Platz in front of BLG's main administrative headquarters . It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .
The sculpture from 1960 made of COR-TEN steel , 2.75 m × 1.85 m in size, was made by the Italian-French sculptor Berto Lardera (1911–1989) and was installed in 1989 in Bremen. Lardera, according to the Bremen State Office for Monument Preservation , “is one of the main representatives of an expressionist, abstract style, a style that was decisive for the 1950s and 1960s. The abstract design language characterizes his work - objects consisting of mounted or welded metal plates, flat iron disks with variously varying cutouts and cutouts ”.
Occasion comes from the French and stands for opportunity . Occasion Dramatique therefore means a dramatic opportunity . Lardera also gave similar names to other sculptures such as those in Grenoble or Duisburg. His sculptures, mainly metal sculptures, can be found all over the world. a. also in Berlin in the Hansaviertel , Duisburg, Hamburg-Harburg and Jülich. Large sculptures by him can be found in buildings by important architects such as Mies van der Rohe , Alvar Aalto , Walter Gropius or Frank Lloyd Wright .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '36.9 " N , 8 ° 48' 54.9" E