Angel of the north

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Angel of the north

The Angel of the North ( English Angel of the North ) is a 1998 by Antony Gormley created modern sculpture outside Gateshead in England .

The rust-brown steel sculpture is an angel , which is supposed to remind of the industrial past of northern England. The construction reaches a height of 20 meters and a wingspan of 54 meters. Thus the angel of the north is wider than the statue of liberty is high. The wings are not straight, but angled at 3.5 degrees to suggest a hug , as Gormley put it. The Angel of the North stands on a hill overlooking the A1 and A167 towards Tyneside and the East Coast Main Line railroad.

construction

Work began on the project in 1994, the total cost of which was £ 1 million . Most of the cost was borne by the UK National Lottery.

Because of its unprotected position, the angel has to withstand wind speeds of up to 160 km / h. For this purpose, 500 tons of concrete foundations were poured, which anchor the sculpture at a depth of 20 meters.

The angel of the north was made in three parts. The fuselage (weighing 110 tons) and the two wings (each weighing 55 tons) were transported to the assembly site by road. It took seven hours to transport the body from the Hartlepool ( County Durham ) manufacturing site alone .

Construction was completed on February 16, 1998. The Angel of the North caused controversial discussions in the regional and national British press. Today it is widely recognized as a North East England attraction.

gallery

  • Angel of the north

  • Frontal view of the angel of the north

  • Angel of the north in the evening

Models

Several models were made during the creation of the artwork. A bronze version owned by Gateshead Council was used in a fundraiser and was valued at £ 1 million on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow on November 16, 2008. Until 2011, a human-sized version of the angel stood in the garden of the Villa Wunderkind by fashion designer Wolfgang Joop in Potsdam. Joop had the sculpture auctioned off to an anonymous bidder at Christie's auction house in London in 2011 for £ 3.4 million. Another version was donated to the National Gallery of Australia in 2009 and is in the sculpture garden there.

Little Angel of the North in Wuppertal

In May 2014, a 1:10 scale image of the figure was set up in a private front garden in Wuppertal , which was created by the artist Dirk Höller with the permission of Antony Gormley .

Web links

Commons : Angel of the North  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Angel of the North, 1998. In: Projects. www.antonygormley.com, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Angel of the north is one in a million. Gateshead Council, November 26, 2008, archived from the original on December 30, 2014 ; accessed on August 26, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Joop lets his angel fly . IMAGE. October 23, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
  4. ^ Antony Gormley's 'Angel of North' sold at auction . BBC. October 15, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ Angel of the North (life-size maquette) 1996 . In: Collection search . National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved August 26, 2015.

Coordinates: 54 ° 54 ′ 50.8 "  N , 1 ° 35 ′ 21.9"  W.