Medical Center Treptow
The Treptow Medical Center is a listed apartment building from the 1880s / 90s in Berlin-Alt-Treptow that has been rededicated for medical practices . In 2012, the pop art artist Sergej Alexander Dott installed the giant flowers object in the renovated medical center .
Location and surroundings
The house is located at Elsenstrasse 1 / corner of Martin-Hoffmann-Strasse south of Elsenbrücke , which leads the heavily frequented Elsenstrasse / An den Treptowers ( Bundesstrasse 96a ) across the Spree . The striking building complex of the Treptowers extends to the north . To the east is the Treptower Park S-Bahn station , which is joined by Treptower Park . To the west, between Puschkinallee and Martin-Hoffmann-Straße, there is a residential area with other listed villas from the Wilhelminian era .
Buildings and use
The villa district was built from 1880 onwards according to a design by the architect and municipal gardening director of Berlin, Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer , according to whose plans Treptower Park was also laid out between 1876 and 1888. According to the Berlin monument database, the four-story corner house at Elsenstrasse 1 / Martin-Hoffmann-Strasse 14 was built as a tenement house around 1890 (other information: 1880). In the GDR era , the building housed the company polyclinic of the neighboring VEB Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow "Friedrich Ebert" , on whose premises the Treptowers are now. 2011 and 2012, when it became monument is under protection Villa rehabilitated. Among other things, new steel girders were drawn in to ensure the stability of the structure and the art objects in the overall static system of the support members . Eight medical practices and a pharmacy are now housed in the building under the name of ÄrzteZentrum Treptow .
Art installation giant flowers
On behalf of the client Sparkling AG, the Berlin painter , graphic artist and sculptor Sergej Alexander Dott decorated the building facades with artificial flowers in 2012. The work of art was inaugurated shortly before Christmas 2012. The artist had made a name for himself by designing pop-art residential areas in Zittau and Berlin, including in 1999 the Kuuuhnst facade at Kollwitzstraße 18 in Prenzlauer Berg , where he installed huge cow sculptures vertically on a fire wall at Kollwitzplatz would have.
Sculptures: proven medicinal plants
Ten medicinal herb sculptures create a link to the building as art in architecture . The stylized flowers, up to twelve meters high, weigh up to 600 kilograms. The stems are made of tubular steel , the flowers of fiberglass-reinforced polyester resin . They are grouped around the building on three sides and anchored to the facade. Luminous bodies are attached around the inflorescences so that the plants illuminate the building in the dark and shine from afar. The production was carried out by the Kreuzberg-based company for artistic steel and metal construction Klaus Lipke. The total costs were around 200,000 euros, which are borne by the client and not passed on to the rents. Chamomile , mugwort and marigold alternate with yellow, white and orange flowers - chamomile , which is used for stomach and intestinal complaints, among other things, was named the first medicinal plant of the year in 1987 and was also the medicinal plant of the year 2002. It is mainly used in natural medicine and folk medicine The anti-inflammatory marigold used was voted Medicinal Plant of the Year in 2009.
Vernissage and giant flowers campaign
On August 26, 2011, parts of the giant flowers were presented at the Dott & Francis vernissage in the halls of the Treptow arena . The presentation was musically accompanied by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the conductor Alun Francis . Francis had composed the piece Anarchy of Flowers for piano and wind instrument especially for the project .
For a minimum donation of one thousand euros, the ten flowers will be auctioned symbolically, and each flower will be given once. The donor remains permanently connected to the selected flower and is honored, among other things, on a metal seal with text of your own choice, which is attached next to the flower sculpture. The giant flowers campaign is carried out by Sparkling AG and is under the patronage of the Treptow-Köpenick District Mayor Oliver Igel (as of 2013). The donations are used in full for charitable cultural projects. The proceeds from the donations from the first two flowers auctioned were used to support: the Grashüpfer puppet theater in Treptower Park, the industrial salon in Oberschöneweide , the artistic lithography workshop in Plänterwald and the Corbo cabaret in Alt-Treptow.
Public reactions and intention of the artist
The reactions of the local media such as Berliner Zeitung , Berliner Morgenpost or BZ were consistently positive. Sergej Alexander Dott describes his intention:
“It was important to me to create a poetic place in a metropolis like Berlin that reflects the genius of nature: the logic of individual, coordinated reaction chains . Starting with the effect of sunlight, which sets the process of photosynthesis in motion, it causes chamomile and mugwort to sprout, which in turn contain healing agents. And at the end of the chain is the consumer, the patient, who benefits from the medicinal plant in the form of a medicine in the medical center. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ a b Sparkling AG: giant flowers. The medical center at the Treptowers .
- ↑ a b c d Karin Schmidl: Flower power at the medical center. The pop-art artist Sergej Alexander Dott designed a facade in Treptow. In: Berliner Zeitung , No. 304, 29./30. December 2012, p. 21.
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ Sparkling AG: giant flowers. Pop Art at the Treptow Medical Center .
- ↑ Ralf Drescher: Very enormous medicinal plants. The artist Sergej Alexander Dott takes care of unusual facade decorations. In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 21, 2012.
- ↑ Sergej Alexander Dott, Homepage: Ärztehaus Elsenstrasse 1 . ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sparkling AG: giant flowers. Pop Art meets Classic.
- ↑ Sparkling AG: giant flowers. Giving away art = promoting culture.
- ↑ Senate Department of Berlin: Puppet theater grasshopper in Treptower Park.
- ^ Senate Department of Berlin: Workshop artistic lithography.
- ↑ Cabaret Corbo, homepage.
- ↑ riesenblumen.de
- ↑ riesenblumen.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '38.4 " N , 13 ° 27' 35.7" E