Art in public space in Halle (Saale)
The art in public space in Halle includes a collection of public works of art that has grown over the centuries . There are over 150 sculptures and sculptures, several dozen fountains, dozen wall designs and hundreds of monuments and memorials in the city of Saale. As part of a scholarly examination of the mediation of art, the presentation that exists in some publications and in numerous places is systematically summarized. In a first step, based on the science of walking , the works of art from Halle's inner city and from Halle-Neustadt were processed along real courses in the context of academic courses. In the city center, the course begins at the Moritzburg and leads across the ring to the market square. In Halle-Neustadt, the tour starts at the center of the district and strolls through the formerly independent residential complexes.
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The step of the century 1984 bronze, partly colored, H 108 m
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Wolfgang Mattheuer (1927-2004) |
The sculpture is considered to be the most famous work of the graphic artist, painter and sculptor of the Leipzig School. In increments of the century, the artist takes stock of the social contradictions of the 20th century in its contradiction between fascism, socialism, barbarism and reaction, ideology and belief, utopia and reality. Three more casts of the sculpture are in Leipzig, Berlin and Bonn; their installation at the House of History or the contemporary history forum point - like the figure itself - in different directions of interpretation. | |
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Two figures 1928/30 sandstone |
Gustav Heinrich Wolff (1886–1934) |
On behalf of the city of Halle (Saale), artists from the castle designed and made various objects such as door handles, lamps, etc. for the new Trotha power plant. This is why these two reliefs for the stairwell were also created. | |
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Cenotaph for the victims of fascism 1947 bronze |
Waldemar Grzimek (1918–1984) |
The two bronze figures are slightly larger than life. | |
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Mauresque 1987 Corrosion support steel (KT steel) cut, welded on a concrete base Friedemann-Bach-Platz |
Irmtraud Ohme (1937-2002) |
The artist worked in a wide variety of material qualities and techniques. The Mauresques go back to ornamental, oriental dance figures. The sculpture, created between 1983 and 1991, is typical of Ohmes' handling of KT steel in large material thicknesses. Irmtraud Ohme taught at Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle. Her consistent handling of the material shaped the work of many of her graduates. The work is owned by the state of Saxony-Anhalt. | |
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An encounter right in the middle 2005 Bronze, painted (originally colored joint mortar) |
Maya Graber (* 1974) | Ms. Roth, Evi Küchler and Hans Bucher - a fictional encounter in public space - was the subtitle of this diploma thesis by the Swiss sculptor. Three roughly life-size figures communicate across the busy intersection. | |
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Mute fellows 1999 Four-part, stainless steel, painted, flashing light |
Maike Freess (* 1965) | The four sculptures line the path through the Lukashof between Großer Ulrichstraße, Universitätsring and Kaulenberg and give this semi-public space an independent artistic touch. The sculptures are owned by Köhnen-Bau. | |
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Prayer pillar Sandstone |
Unknown, stylistic prerequisites in the Erfurt epitaph from 1444 Günther Bock | In 1455 the prayer column at the Galgtor - on the east side of today's Riebeckplatz - was set up as a place of silent prayer. From 1928 to 1969 the pillar stood on Franckeplatz, and finally because of the construction of the Hochstraße since 1972 it was used to decorate the park at Moritzburgring. The prayer pillar is currently awaiting restoration. | |
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Relic man Steel sculpture |
Michael Morgner (* 1942) | The silhouette-like sculpture made of corrosion-resistant steel stands on its narrow edge. The shape plays with the tension between the surface of the material and the space in between. | |
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African woman and African 1963/64 Bronze |
Gerhard Geyer (1907–1989) |
The University of Halle had this sculpture set up to commemorate and honor the first students from Africa. | |
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Heinrich Heine 2002 sandstone |
Jens Bergner (* 1964) | The monument - a huge, inclined head - is intended to show posterity's respect for the work and the upright life of the poet. | |
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Lions 1816 Cast iron, coating |
Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850) |
Today the lions are a central motif of the University of Halle-Wittenberg. However, they used to be next to a tube water fountain on the market square in Halle. There, on July 23, 1823, the sculptures cast according to the design by Johann Gottfried Schadow were ceremoniously displayed. Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) wrote a poem, alluding to the two closings of the university by Napoleon, in which the lions are mentioned: "At Halle on the market, there are two large lions. Eh, you Halle lion defiance, How has you are being tamed! " ( The Homecoming , 1823-1824) | |
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Three steles 1998 Artificial stone |
Simon Ungers (1957-2006) |
The sculpture that emerged from the competition for art in architecture during the Juridicum's new building phase appears to open up the narrow inner courtyard. The art in the Juridicum building supports the "solitaire in the block" rather hidden | |
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Striese - theater director 1994 Ceramic |
Lothar Sell (1939-2009) | Leaving out is the art in art , says Emanuel Striese, theater director and comedian from Saxony. An interpretation of this: This does not mean the reduction of representational and staging means, but what has been left out cannot fail the viewer. | |
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Curt Goetz (1888-1960) |
Michael Weihe (1961–2012) |
The actor, writer and chicken farmer Curt Goetz spent his childhood and youth in Halle an der Saale, the city where his mother was born. Michael Weihe's sculpture shows the slender mimes with a golden egg. | |
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Roland 1719 (after older predecessors) restored 2005/06 sandstone |
The sandstone statue of the knight with a bare sword, Roland, stands in front of the Red Tower on Hallescher Markt. The figure is considered to be the symbol of city rights. There are comparable Roland statues e.g. B. in Bremen, Nordhausen, Halberstadt, Prenzlau or Stendal. | ||
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Triptych Council Loggia 2005/06 bronze relief plate, in three parts |
Maya Graber (* 1974) | The two by three meter large floor sculpture is reminiscent of the old town hall of Halle, which was damaged in the Second World War and completely demolished by 1950 . Since the redesign of the square, a steel frame has marked the floor plan of the town hall, the picture plate fills part of this area. The Swiss sculptress has concentrated picture and text panels together to form a picture composition. | |
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Old Town Hall 2001 bronze |
Cathleen Meier (* 1970) | Representing and at the same time promoting a reconstruction, the small bronze wayside shrine shows a model of the historic town hall in Halle. | |
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Four building sculptures 1928/29 bronze each 2.2 m high |
Gustav Weidanz (1889–1970) | On the administrative building of the Ratshof, built as the New Town Hall in 1928/29, bronze sculptures by Gustav Weidanz - copies of the originals melted down during World War II - symbolize Halle's economic life: industry, the Saale, trade, the Saale landscape and mining. The sculptures were reworked in 1976/77 by Johannes Baumgärtner based on photos. | |
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Flag monument Flame of the Revolution 1967 prestressed concrete |
Sigbert Fliegel | The redesign by Steffen O. Rumpf from 2004 shows a coarse color grid in red and yellow tones on the curved shape of the large sculpture, which depicts the Milky Way and the cosmic background radiation. The middle band is supposed to represent our own galaxy. The red background symbolizes the universe. Steffen O. Rumpf studied painting and graphics at the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle from 1991 to 1998. | |
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Way of memory 2006 bronze |
Christof Traub (* 1963) | Memorial in memory of the Monday demonstrations in 1989
In June 2005, the city of Halle (Saale) invited artists residing in Saxony-Anhalt to an open artistic ideas competition for the design of a monument to commemorate the Monday demonstrations in 1989. The jury, chaired by Bernd Göbel, recommended the competition entries by Christoph Reichenbach and Christof Traub for implementation. According to the jury, both designs express the events for future generations in their very different artistic formulation. The artists were asked to present their ideas to the city council specifically in relation to the urban planning situation. At its meeting on January 25, 2006, the latter decided in favor of Christof Traub's design “The Way of Memory”. The realization of the work of art became possible in the same year exclusively through donations from the citizens. |
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Runners at the finish, 1926 bronze |
Fritz Röll (1879–1956) |
Fritz Röll belongs to the Berlin school of sculpture around Adolf von Hildebrand. | |
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Zither Reinhold 2002 Bronze at |
Wolfgang Dreysse (* 1947) |
The water-washed double figure in the tradition of Halle's sculpture school is reminiscent of the street musician Reinhold Lohse, called Zither-Reinhold (1878–1964), who until his death was to be found playing on the streets of Halle, first on the organ, later on the zither. Before the sculptures were erected, an intensive discussion broke out about the artistic form-finding and doubts about a contemporary monumental form of the proposed, later realized work of art were raised. | |
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Wall of Fame 2006 wall painting |
Konrad Mühe (* 1982) |
The Wall of Fame deals with the rules of the graffiti scene as a work for the intermediate examination at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle . First he recorded all the tags on the wall. These name characters, which often appear calligraphic but are illegible for a larger audience, are typographically arranged in several rows and alphabetically. The title of the work also plays with the traditions of the sprayers and is a modification of the English term Hall of Fame . | |
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Fountain of the Muses 1974–76 Bronze artificial stone in front of Ulrichskirche Leipziger Straße 97 |
Gerhard Lichtenfeld (1921–1978) |
The four female figures mounted on a high column embody four patron goddesses of the arts: music, poetry, dance, visual arts and sciences can be recognized by their attributes. | |
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Grünewald 1957 Bronze relief plate on the |
Gerhard Geyer (1907–1989) |
The panel commemorates the painter Matthias Grünewald, who died in Halle (Saale). | |
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Donkey on roses 1986 Bronze |
Peter Michael (* 1938) |
Figured door handles. | |
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Donkey fountain 1906–1913 Bronze, stamped concrete |
Heinrich Keiling (1856–1940) |
The fountain consists of a bowl made of stamped concrete, from the center of which a column with masks as gargoyles rises. On the platform stands the group The donkey who walks on bronze roses . In 1905, the furniture merchant Martick donated 3,500 marks for a new system in exchange for a zinc fountain set up in 1868. During the renovation that took place in 1997, the 92 cm tall figure was restored by Ulrich Seiblist. The fountain basin was restored by Peter Michael and Christoph Reichenbach. | |
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Geoscope old market |
Hallesche Marktplatz Fault | ||
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Dragon fountain 1983 bronze, partially gilded sandstone |
Peter Michael (* 1938) |
The fountain stands in front of the west portal of the Marien- or Marktkirche. It has a height of 3.50 meters. The square sandstone fountain is crowned by four dragons, who protect their golden ball and ward off visitors. | |
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Göbelbrunnen or Hallmarktbrunnen 1988/2000 bronze sandstone |
Bernd Göbel (* 1942) | In the baroque fountain system, the fountain figures erected tell episodes from the history of Halle. The execution of these older designs was controversial during the construction phase; most of all a figure of Cardinal Albrecht wearing the bishop's hat in a deep embrace with a woman (alluding to his mistress). Due to the protest, the artist reworked it into a hairstyle of a similar shape. Today the fountain is often depicted in the Halle townscape. | |
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city 1988 Mural on |
Bernd Baumgart (* 1956) Hans-Joachim Triebsch (* 1955) |
Baumgart and Triebsch depict scenes in their picture, which takes up the entire wall surface. Motifs of mask wearers, tightrope walkers and mythological figures serve in the painting of the end of the GDR for critical interpretations of real socialist society. | |
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The eternal secret service man 1992 ceramics at |
Frank Hüller (* 1961) | When attached to a plate in the corner of a new 1980s building, the figure is definitely comparable with the sculptures by Lothar Sell on Moritzzwinger, which are around 20 years older. In terms of content, the figure created after the fall of the Wall differs significantly from the folk facade decoration of the early 1980s. In addition, the "eternal secret service man" works exactly opposite the café that was a source of unrest in the times of the end of the GDR. | |
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Vibrations 2002 Acrylic glass |
Artist group Pentimento (Claudia Baugut, Sigrid Deutloff, Christiane Jung, Karen Rosski, Silke Trekel) |
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Stumbling blocks 2013 brass, capital letters |
Gunter Demnig | With his "Stolpersteinen", the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig created a memorial for the Jews expelled and murdered under National Socialism that is visible in many cities. | |
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Circle of life 1986/2012 fountain bronze sandstone |
Horst Brühmann (* 1942) |
The fountain was designed by Horst Brühmann for the Domplatz in Halle. The five life-size figures of the circle of life have already been cast in bronze. The contract for the construction work for the sandstone basin is imminent. The central figure - mother and child with falling death - is called Life conquers death . | |
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Matthias Grünewald 1989 bronze, base made of Löbejun quartz porphyry |
Gerhard Geyer (1907–1989) |
The painter and graphic artist Matthias Grünewald (also Mathis Gothart / Mathis Nothardt or Mathis Grün), who presumably died in Halle an der Saale in 1528 (30 or 31), was valued on an equal footing with Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach the Elder after his death , but was quickly forgotten again . His main work, the Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar, was later and for a long time the work of Albrecht Dürer. Geyer's sculpture depicts the painter in a serene, almost enthroned sitting position; He holds his work utensils in his hands like ruler's attributes. | |
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Paul 1972/73 sandstone |
Günter Kaden (* 1941) | Diploma thesis from 1972 at Burg Giebichenstein | |
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coffee and tea 1986 Ceramic wall design |
Christoph Schulz | In the course of the new buildings around the Moritzkirche, this wall design with glazed ceramic tiles was created as an architecture- related art . | |
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greeting 1983/84 Terracotta figures |
Lothar Sell (1939-2009) |
The terracotta figures are supposed to greet passers-by at the narrow ford in the street next to the Moritzkirche. The formal language of the sculptures is typical for the artist. | |
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Craftsman's fountain 1983/84 terracotta, clinker brick |
Martin Wetzel (1929-2008) |
Figures with props that are reminiscent of tools from selected trades are lined up around a central column. The circular fountain basin fits into the small square. |
Halle-Neustadt - art in public space
With the emergence and development of today's Halle-Neustadt district, art in public space was integrated into the cityscape. This was made possible by the claim to combine architecture and the fine arts and the corresponding legal regulation, which stipulated the use of a share of the funds available for each residential unit for art. Against this background, a large number of works of art for indoor and outdoor spaces were commissioned by the public. The majority of these works of art have been preserved, but works have also been lost due to changes of ownership for social reasons, material fatigue or vandalism.
During the detailed consultations on the task of the residential complex II project in 1966, a “collective of visual artists was included for the first time for the GDR in order to formulate the corresponding artistic and garden design ideas during the urban planning concept and the definition of the architectural focal points”. In this way, one of the first visual artistic concepts for large urban ensembles was worked out and largely implemented in Halle-West .
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Hodja Nasreddin 1980/2001, bronze, partially gold-plated Neustädter Passage 15 |
Bernd Göbel (* 1942) | The fairy tale fountain traces characters and scenes from the stories of Hodscha Nasreddin . Hodja himself is raised in the middle of the composition. Originally placed in the south of Halle-Neustadt, the fountain was only moved to its current position in 2001 in the small park at Neustadt town hall, next to the shopping mall and train station. |
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Gymnastics children 1984, bronze Neustädter Passage |
Rudolf Hilscher | A boy supports a girl jumping over him while leapfrog on his shoulders. The life-size bronze sculpture has found a new position in the passage after the redesign of the Neustadt center. |
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goal 1987, Stahl Neustädter Passage 7-9 |
Ludwig Ehrler (1939-2014) | Ludwig Ehrler has been a fixture in the art scene for urban space and architecture in Saxony-Anhalt with his geometric, concrete design language and artistic solutions for decades. The irony of the situation: the red square is created by a trailer placed behind it by chance. |
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Calling and listening 1989/2010, bronze (figures); Artificial stone (fountain, base) Neustädter Passage |
Wolfgang Dreysse (* 1947) | Communication between the generations of people is the theme of this group of sculptures created at the end of the GDR era: two bronze figures, slightly larger than life, stand opposite each other: the old man seems to be calling, the young one shows the gestures of a skeptical listener. The conflict, which is generally described in human terms, has political dimensions: In the year the work is put up, the political upheaval in the GDR begins. And the title reminds former GDR citizens of the times of surveillance by the state security.
When the continued existence of the work of art was fundamentally called into question during the redesign of the Neustädter Passage, the artist rewrote the sculptures and brought them both from the pedestals washed by the water to the viewer level. |
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Construction helper 1974, artificial stone casting, relief column Hallorenstrasse / An_der Magistrale |
Rudolf Hilscher | The relief column makes formal references to Roman triumphal columns and medieval models and thematizes various scenes of the typical building trades. Activities that shape the urban space such as reclaiming the soil and planting trees can be seen, but also singing, dancing and partying people line up in self-contained groups. Text blocks in between quote the official language of the GDR. |
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Women's fountain 1974, bronze |
Gerhard Lichtenfeld (1921–1978) | Gerhard Lichtenfeld's fountain pays homage to the beauty of women. The artist worked as a university lecturer at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein and shaped the work of his students such as Bernd Göbel and Wolfgang Dreysse and, in some cases, their students to this day. |
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Painting on ceramics 1970 |
Wilhelm Schmied (1910–1984) | The tile strips below the windows structure the facade of the secondary school on the connecting building of the class building above the (former?) Main entrance. As elsewhere, they created a clear color accent that can hardly be perceived in today's extensive advertising. The stylized imagery is reminiscent of the early images of socialist realism. |
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elephant 1970/1981, artificial stone Wippraer Weg 4–6 |
Otto Leibe | The work of art, inaugurated in 1970, refers to the enthusiasm for experimentation of the time with the varied building material concrete in the special technique of a shell construction. The timeless shape is rarely used as it used to be, since there are now more attractive venues for today's generation of users and the structural condition of the property and its immediate surroundings make it difficult to use. |
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Tree of life 1967/1969, enamel painting Oebisfelderweg 2 |
Willi Neubert (1920–2011) | Neubert created the wall design for the first local school in 1965 - not far from the foundation stone for the Neustadt itself, by the way. This polytechnic high school kept its name Erste POS even after numerous public buildings had been renamed after distinguished politicians. In the field of view above the entrance, the tree of life paints a more elegiac picture of the social circumstances and goals and, as an act of planting, gains symbolic significance for this school and its role in building the future society. The motif of the tree of life probably symbolizes the first half of the human life circle. The formal language and image composition cited again in the 1990s refer to works by Ferdinand Leger. Willi Neubert, whose panel painting Chess Player (1964) and discussion in the Neuererkollektiv (1969) were on the school curriculum, worked on the development of enamel painting - beginning in the 1960s - and with the founding (and management) of the Institute for Architectural Enamel in Thale, assigned to the University for Industrial Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle, from 1970 onwards in terms of infrastructure. |
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He touched the sleep of the world 1971 Silicate |
Erich Enge | Here, too, compositions based on a perspective of meaning borrowed from the medieval world of style illustrate, in a vocabulary that strives for general validity, the GDR elite interpretations of the texts of ideological models in urban space. |
literature
- Ronald Kunze, Architektursalon I, New Buildings in Halle (Saale) (exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Villa Kobe), Halle (Saale) 2002
- Dagmar Schmidt, Karin Jarausch, Art in Public Space in Halle-Neustadt, Halle 1993
- Dagmar Schmidt, competition and symposium of the city of Halle, in: Stadt Halle (Saale), Kulturamt (ed.), Stadtpark-Kunst 1994
- City of Halle, The Mayoress (ed.), Art in Public Space. Halle / Saale 1990–2000, Hall 2000
- City of Halle, The Mayoress (ed.), Art in Public Space. Halle-Neustadt district, Halle 2001
- Johannes Stahl (ed.), Extended Merry Future. The exhibition on the project Art ___ Saxony-Anhalt. Exhibition catalog, hall 1999
- Johannes Stahl, Dagmar Schmidt, analysis and practical investigation of the field of curation and art education, Halle (Saale), 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ See, for example, the Halle website in the picture .
- ↑ Stahl / Schmidt, 2012
- ^ City of Halle (Saale), 2000: 8/32
- ^ City of Halle (Saale), 2000: 7/32
- ↑ Ronald Kunze, Architektursalon I, New Buildings in Halle (Saale), 2002
- ↑ Ingrid Häußler, greeting from the mayor; in: Art in public space, Halle-Neustadt district, Halle 2001
- ^ Dagmar Schmidt, Karin Jarausch, Art in Public Space in Halle-Neustadt. Hall 1993
- ↑ German architecture, No. 4/1967, p 208 by Schmidt / Jarausch, 1993: 7
- ^ Schmidt / Jarausch, 1993: 7
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