Ascending

Rising in the Magdeburg Sculpture Park

Ascending in front of the Rostock art gallery

The name of a sculpture by the German sculptor Fritz Cremer is more ascending .

Details

Cremer created the 2.96 meter tall bronze statue in 1966/1967. The sculpture showing a man climbing became internationally known because it was donated to the United Nations by the GDR in 1975 and was placed in the park of the UN headquarters in New York City . Second casts can be found in the Magdeburg Sculpture Park (coordinate) , in front of the Rostock art gallery and in Plauen in Vogtland (on the Bärenstein near the upper train station ).

With his work, the communist Cremer expressed the struggle and suffering of the people in their pursuit of liberation from the fetters of their past. In the artist's view, suffering, struggle and victory belong together. His work is intended to symbolize the rise of man who becomes aware of his historical role and develops his strength.

Wolf Biermann read a poem about this sculpture in his concert in Cologne in 1976.

literature

• Andreas Hornemann: From so far to here , QuadratArtVerlag Magdeburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-935971-53-9 , no.11

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tim Hofmann: The cast from the Vogtland . In: Free Press . December 18, 2018, p. A1 .
2. ↑ Andreas Hornemann: From so far to here , No. 11
3. ↑ Poem, read by Wolf Biermann (from 35:56)