Funny art in the Frankfurt green belt

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Funny art in the green belt: I-monument by Hans Traxler

Komische Kunst im Frankfurt Green Belt ( proper spelling : Green Belt ) is a series of humorous sculptures in Frankfurt am Main . The 14 works of comic art exhibited in public space across the Frankfurt green belt are based on designs by members of the New Frankfurt School . The first publicly presented work in the series was the Frankfurt Green Armadillo designed by the draftsman and author Robert Gernhardt in 2001 . More than a dozen other works of art followed by 2017. The patron of the series is the city of Frankfurt in cooperation with the Caricatura Museum for Komische Kunst Frankfurt.

history

Green armadillo; Bronze sculpture designed by Robert Gernhardt

In 2001 Robert Gernhardt (1937–2006) was invited by the City of Frankfurt's Magistrate to give a speech on the tenth anniversary of the Frankfurt Green Belt at the anniversary celebration organized for it. Instead of the requested speech, Gernhardt sent a folder with five drawings of the green armadillo he had invented especially for the occasion and also gave the city the rights to use the figure. Since then, the city has been using the fantasy figure in a variety of ways as a figure of sympathy for the green belt and thanked it in 2002 by planting three “Gernhardt ash trees” on the Wörthspitze in Frankfurt-Nied . Since then, the green armadillo has been regarded as the "starting shot" for the comic art project in the green belt .

Pinkelbaum after a drawing by F. K. Waechter

Gernhardt's friend and colleague at the New Frankfurt School, F. K. Waechter (1937–2005), followed his example and gave the city the right to use seven of his humorous drawings on the subject of art on trees . Waechter's designs were implemented in wooden sculptures, the majority of which were installed scattered in the Frankfurt city forest . Waechter's favorite object was the pee tree by the Jacobi pond . A “happy jet of water” hits anyone who comes too close to this tree: The function of the sculpture standing directly on the bank is controlled by a motion detector , the “urine” is water from the pond.
After F. K. Waechter's death, his son Philip Waechter , also a draftsman, took over the implementation of his father's works, and since Gernhardt's death he has also been the official draftsman of the green armadillo.

Green belt cartoon by Clovis Poth
The barefooter, based on a drawing by Kurt Halbritter

Gernhardt and Waechter's designs were followed by the works of other members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, the plastic implementations of which have since been presented successively in the green belt. Hans Traxler (* 1929) designed an I-Monument , Chlodwig Poth (1930–2004) contributed cartoons from his Last Exit Sossenheim series (2003), F. W. Bernstein (1938–2018) set a penalty point (2008), and to Bernd Pfarrs (1958–2004) Figure Sondermann has been reminiscent of a sandstone sculpture since 2013. In 2017, the series of comic art was expanded to include the bronze sculpture Der Barfüßer , created posthumously based on a drawing by Kurt Halbritter (1924–1978).

Jupiter's column with green armadillo, implemented by Andreas Rohrbach

Most of the works in this series were made as sculptures by the sculptor Andreas Rohrbach. Other contributions come from Thomas Anton, Siegfried Böttcher, Henner Drescher, Till Hergenhahn and the City of Frankfurt's Green Space Office.

The sculptures in the series are mostly located along the signposted green belt circular hiking trail; All the works in the Komische Kunst series are shown on the Green Belt Leisure Map published by the Frankfurt City Environment Agency . Plaques at the locations of the works of art provide information about the author and title; individual works are explained on information steles provided. The sculptures are partly financed through the sale of the green armadillo figure as a stuffed animal and - until the limited edition was sold out - through the sale of prints of Gernhardt's green armadillo drawings.

The works exhibited in the series

  • FW Bernstein: penalty point (2008) - Ostpark , Ostend
  • Robert Gernhardt:
  • Kurt Halbritter: The Barefoot (2017) - Kurt-Halbritter-Anlage, Rödelheim
  • Bernd Pfarr: Sondermann sculpture (2013) - Nordpark , Bonames
  • Chlodwig Poth: Green belt cartoons (2003) - Chlodwig-Poth-Anlage, Sossenheimer Unterfeld , Sossenheim
  • Hans Traxler: I-Monument (2005) - Gerbermühle , Oberrad
  • Sculptures based on drawings by FK Waechter:
    • Big caterpillar (2008) - Erlenbruch, Seckbach
    • Squirrel King (2006) - Frankfurt City Forest, City Forest House, Sachsenhausen
    • Owl in a Norwegian sweater (2005) - Frankfurter Stadtwald, Jacobiweiher , Sachsenhausen
    • Monster Children (2006) - Frankfurt City Forest, Schwanheim Forest, Schwanheim
    • Monsterspecht (2006, 2018) - Frankfurter Stadtwald, Oberschweinstiegschneise, Sachsenhausen
    • Pinkelbaum (2007) - Frankfurt City Forest, Jacobiweiher, Sachsenhausen
    • Struwwelpeter (2006) - Frankfurter Stadtwald, Schwanheimer Wiesen, Schwanheim

literature

  • Magistrate of the City of Frankfurt am Main / Regional Park Rhein-Main (Ed.): Monsterspecht and fat caterpillar - comical art in the Frankfurt green belt . 52 p., Frankfurt am Main 2017
  • City of Frankfurt, Department for Environment, Health and Personnel (Ed.): 20 Years of the Green Belt Frankfurt - People, Data and Projects - 1991–2011 . Festschrift, 82 pages, paperback. In it: Chapter Die Komische Kunst - loving joke in the open landscape, p. 58 ff.
  • City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (Ed.): The Green Belt Leisure Card . 8th edition, 2017

Web links

Commons : Funny art in the green belt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Frankfurt (Ed.): 20 Years of Green Belt Frankfurt, p. 58
  2. ↑ City of Frankfurt (ed.): Monsterspecht und Dicke Raupe, p. 2
  3. ^ Regional Park Rhein-Main: Der Pinkelbaum, Frankfurt , accessed on June 9, 2019
  4. ↑ City of Frankfurt (ed.): Monsterspecht und Dicke Raupe, p. 38
  5. ↑ Halbritter's animal and plant world, ISBN 3-442-08630-2 , pages 50–51
  6. ↑ City of Frankfurt (ed.): Monsterspecht und Dicke Raupe, p. 10
  7. ↑ City of Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Monsterspecht und Dicke Raupe - Komische Kunst im Frankfurter GrünGürtel (various pages)
  8. ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The green belt leisure map . 8th edition, 2017
  9. ↑ City of Frankfurt (ed.): 20 years GrünGürtel Frankfurt, p. 59
  10. ^ Penalty point from FW Bernstein at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  11. ↑ GrünGürtel-Tier by Robert Gernhardt at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  12. ↑ Jupiter's column and Tyrolean animals at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  13. ↑ Thomas Stillbauer: The barefoot is there . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 2, 2016; accessed on July 27, 2017
  14. ^ Sondermann by Bernd Pfarr at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  15. ↑ Chlodwig-Poth-Anlage at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  16. ↑ I monument by Hans Traxler at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  17. ↑ thick bead of FK Waechter at par.frankfurt.de , the former site of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  18. ↑ Squirrel King of FK Waechter at par.frankfurt.de , the former site of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  19. ^ Owl in a Norwegian sweater by FK Waechter at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  20. ↑ Monster Children of FK Waechter at par.frankfurt.de , the former site of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  21. ^ Monsterspecht from FK Waechter at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  22. ↑ Pinkel tree FK Waechter at par.frankfurt.de , the former site of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  23. ^ Struwwelpeter from FK Waechter at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main