Art in public space in Ludwigshafen

This list shows art in public space in the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Some of these works of art are works by internationally recognized artists and artists of purely regional importance.

list

image	Artist / work / year	Remarks
	Alex Bear Encounter 2012	The almost three meter high steel statue stands in front of the former substation that has been converted into an artist's house. The two-dimensional steel plate was cut out and then welded together again at certain angles, giving it a three-dimensional effect.
	Ulrich Naumann Bloch memorial 2007	The three meter high and 1.20 meter wide panel made of COR-TEN steel on Ernst-Bloch-Platz in front of the Yorck high-rise is reminiscent of the philosopher Ernst Bloch , who was born in the southern city center in 1885.
	Ernst Moritz Geyger archer 1895	This well-known sculpture in front of the tower restaurant in Ebertpark was originally sold in six different sizes. One copy was in the possession of the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Other copies of this work, created in 1902, are now also on the Neustädter Elbe bank and in the park of Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam .
	George Rickey Conversation II 1999	The work of art on the central Berliner Platz is a gift from BASF to the city of Ludwigshafen on the occasion of the turn of the millennium. On a stele, two L-shaped elements are set in motion by air movement, which results in either the letter L or U, together the license plate for Ludwigshafen: LU.
	Maria Ewel The Big Tiger 1957	The sculpture on Alwin-Mittasch-Platz in Friesenheim is presented in an abstract language of forms and shows the powerful shape of the animal. The animal sculpture is in a deplorable condition: it is so smeared that the original color can hardly be recognized and even the tail of the big cat was broken off.
	Michael Croissant The fallen Prometheus 1968	The sculpture of the ancient Greek hero Prometheus hangs on the facade of the Carl-Bosch-Gymnasium.
	Martin Adam Foeller The Treidler 1976	The sculpture shows a towman who is hard at work pulling a loaded boat upstream. The Frankenthal Canal connected the Frankenthal harbor with the Rhine for more than 150 years . In 1944 it was used for the last time by a transport ship and was partially destroyed in the last days of the Second World War. The open-air museum, which was inaugurated in 1991, was abandoned in 2013 due to excessive vandalism.
	Wolfgang Auer The arrival of Mary 2005	The fountain in front of the pilgrimage church Oggersheim tells the legend that the Virgin Mary and the Holy House were carried by angels and clouds over water and land to the Italian city of Loreto . There is also a Loreto chapel inside the pilgrimage church .
	Hans Günter Thiele The world in my hands 2002	The "globe" on the Dr. Hans-Wolf-Platz in the Pfingstweide stands for the multiculturalism of this district. The hands are made of sandstone, the ball of stainless steel with continents painted green.
	Fred Emmerich Perspectives 1993	The steel sculpture is on Industriestrasse, in front of the technical works in Ludwigshafen.
	Albert Hoch stainless steel fountain 1977	According to other information, the sculpture was made by Wolfgang Spahn.
	Giacomo Manzù ice skater 1957	The ice skater on Ludwigsplatz was created in 1957 as a characteristic example of late impressionism . She presents herself as a slim, towering girl figure on a bronze base that emphasizes the long legs.
	Kubach-Wilmsen Endless column	This sculpture by the sculptor couple Wolfgang Kubach and Anna Kubach-Wilmsen is located in the Heinz-Beck-Hof behind the city library. Their artistic oeuvre is a nearly 40-year homage to stone as a material.
	Max Bill Endless Staircase 1991	The Endless Staircase at the Wilhelm Hack Museum was built by the Swiss artist Max Bill in 1991 for the centenary of the birth of the philosopher Ernst Bloch . The 19 winding steps made of North American granite are supposed to represent the philosophical principle of Hope Bloch.
	Peter Gelbert, Hans-Günther Thiele Eulenbrunnen 1913, renovated in 1992	With these fountains in the Riedsaumpark, the people of Friesenheim allude ironically to their name. The owls, looking in four directions, are supposed to testify that Friesenheim is the center of the world. Donated in 1913 by the Friesenheim trade association, renewed in 1992.
	Le Corbusier foot	The original of this monumental foot on Fußgönheimer Strasse in Ruchheim is made of foam and is in the entrance area of ​​an interior designer in Rome. It was designed by Le Corbusier. The representative of this company in Germany had a mold designed and poured with concrete.
	Georg Kolbe Flying Genius 1928	The Flying Genius on Ludwigsplatz is an idealistic nude sculpture that shows a heroic gesture.
	Max Faller Franziskusbrunnen 1992	In front of Friesenheim's Josefskirche there is a bronze column with scenes from the life of St. Francis of Assisi .
	Manfred Kieselbach Against Injustice and Violence 1991	This memorial stands in front of the main entrance of the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium and commemorates the Geschwister Scholl .
	Margot Stempel-Lebert Disturbed Order 1990	This controversial work of art with the significant title stands in front of the Ludwigshafen police headquarters.
	Friedrich Becker Divided Sphere 1992	The Divided Sphere stands on a stele in a water basin in front of the Rhine Center. The two hemispheres rotate in the plane through a mechanism inside.
	Fritz Koenig Große Zwei XVII 1976/79	Koenig's sculptures shape the public space in many German cities, including in Ludwigshafen in front of the Bundesbank branch. Koenig approaches the statics of his monumental sculpture with boldness. The two figures, abstracted onto club-shaped bodies and spherical heads, are falling. Only a narrow connecting element binds them to the vertically rising column. Suggested instability of a fleeting moment and the actual strength of the material, the bronze, are deliberately at odds. Koenig would like to make the interplay of rising and falling, of static and balance, of calm and movement as well as of the natural and abstraction visible. In his sculptures, which hover between figuration and abstraction, he deals with all creature existence throughout his life and makes birth but also death a theme.
	Maritta Kaltenborn Trade and Change 1989	This sculpture was donated to the city by Commerzbank , in front of whose branch it is on Bismarckstrasse. Due to its shape, the locals nicknamed it the ear of administration .
	Gerd Dehof Harlequin 1967	The harlequin doing a handstand stands in front of the former youth house . Initially, parents protested against this plastic because they thought it caused fear in children.
	Rheingönheim prisoner of war camp	Memorial stone for the Rhine meadow camp in Rheingönheim.
	Wolf Spitzer Art in Buildings 1994	Spitzer has included a yellow steel beam from the Ludwigshafen Technology Center.
	von Krafft Langemarck Memorial 1936	This war memorial at the Hofgut in Mundenheim was erected on the initiative of the war club and is a reminder of the myth of Langemarck , the transfiguration of a losing battle that took place near the Belgian town of Langemark during the First World War .
	Hans Günter Thiele Lebensbaum 1997	Thiele created this tree of life on the occasion of his 50th professional anniversary. It became the symbol of the Hatzfeld Foundation and is on Maria-Luise-Hatzfeld-Platz, near the Mundenheim cemetery.
	Wolf Spitzer strip lighting 1989	The monument for the Rheinschanze stands directly on the banks of the Rhine, at the point where the historic Rhine crossing was. The ribbons light up when the light falls accordingly.
	Jan van Munster light column 2002	The Dutch artist Jan van Munster designed for the Sparkasse Vorderpfalz on the Ludwigsplatz a 22-meter-high column of light through reflections on the windshield of the bank with the 38-meter Brainwave (English: brain wave ) occurs inside in relationship.
	Wolf Spitzer light gate 1979	The so-called light gate in front of the town hall center is the symbolic entrance to the pedestrian zone in Bismarck-Straße. Because of its location, it is also the meeting point and starting point for demonstrations. Because of its shape, it is also affectionately known as the "keyhole".
	Erich Koch Ludwina 1988	The figure of Ludwina sits on a pedestal with petals on the edge of a shallow fountain basin. The fountain was donated by the Stadtsparkasse, which celebrated its centenary in 1988. The Ludwina is an allegory of spring and at the same time a tribute to the up-and-coming industrial city.
	Barbara and Gernot Rumpf Luther Fountain 1992	The Luther fountain in front of the former Luther Church is the only monument that Martin Luther and his wife Katharina von Bora show. At the same time the fountain plays on Luther's conflict with Pope Leo X on.
	Eberhard Linke Mensch im Kreis 1988	The person in the circle stands in front of the entrance to the administration building of the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis on Europaplatz .
	Joachim Berthold couple of people 1962	Bronze sculpture in Ebertpark . At about 1.30 meters tall, it is smaller than life-size. Another of them, but designed in larger than life size, is in Erlangen .
	Roland Gebhardt Minimal Art 1973	This plastic is around 3 meters high and weighs around 400 kilograms. It stands in Marienpark near the Marienkirche and was made by the artist in BASF's plastics workshops.
	Joan Miró Miró Wall 1979	The Miró wall at the Wilhelm Hack Museum owes its creation to a design flaw, as the museum building had to be raised by four meters, creating a huge outdoor area that was designed by the Catalan artist with a cladding of 7,200 tiles.
	Ernst W. Kunz Wednesday meeting 1977	The so-called dumpling fountain is located in the middle of the pedestrian zone and gets its nickname from the round spherical elements, which remind Palatine people of dumplings . The fountain is currently in storage due to a neighboring construction project, but will be re-erected after the work has been completed.
	Oggersheimer Marktbrunnen 1996	The three columns at the Marktbrunnen on Oggersheimer Hans-Warsch-Platz symbolize the former city gates: Frankenthaler Tor, Speyerer Tor and Mannheimer Tor.
	Martin Schöneich Untitled 2003	Steel sculpture in the middle of Rheingönheim
	Marcello Morandini Ombralatina 2004	The ten-meter-high marble sculpture behind the one at the Wilhelm Hack Museum consists of a metal core to which slabs of white marble from Ticino and black granite from Zimbabwe are alternately attached.
	Hans-Günther Thiele Paul-Münch-Brunnen 1990	The Paul Münch fountain in front of the old town hall in Ruchheim is a reminder of the Palatinate world history of the dialect poet Paul Münch, who was born in Ruchheim .
	Bonifatius Stirnberg Palatinate joie de vivre 1991	The four figures of the Fountain Palatinate Joy of Life on Ludwigsplatz stand for singing and making music, sport, celebrating parties and dancing. In the middle of the bronze sculpture are vine tendrils and a smiling sun as a reference to the Palatinate summer.
	Blasius Spreng Ernst W. Kunz Palatinate Column 1968	The Palatinate Column in front of the Palatinate Building is a 21 m high obelisk and is part of the outdoor area of ​​the new Palatinate Building, inaugurated in 1968, the theater building of the city of Ludwigshafen.
	Erich Hauser Space Column 22 1979	This sculpture on Heinz-Beck-Platz behind the city library consists of seven stainless steel tubes that suggest bodies falling in a zigzag line.
	Eugen Roth Pyramidale spatial structure 1979/1983	This 3.5 meter high pyramid made of stainless steel pipe should be thought to continue to be thought of in the ether. The structure is located in front of the council chamber in the town hall center .
	Kurt Lehmann Rainman 1953	The rain man was a present from the neighboring city of Mannheim for the hundredth birthday of Ludwigshafen in 1953. It is a little boy with an open book over his head to protect himself.
	Kazuo Katase Ring des Seyns 1998	The Ring des Seyns at the Ludwigshafen Clinic is a four-part installation. On the roof there is a 30-meter-long rod that is guided over a tubular element as a support. At the outer end of the rod, in front of the front wall of the hospital, hangs a red ring with a diameter of 10 meters.
	Hans-Günther Thiele Rochus Monument	In front of the former Friesenheim town hall there is a memorial to the symbolic figure Rochus from Friesenheim, who saw the eyes of an owl at night, mistook them for embers and alerted the fire department. For this reason, the owl is also the symbol for the district.
	Hans Nagel tube sculpture	This sculpture is located in the Heinz-Beck-Hof.
	Theo Siegle Schiller Monument 1955	The monument to Friedrich Schiller in front of the Oggersheim town hall is already the third Schiller monument in the village. It commemorates the fugitive poet's secret stay in Oggersheim in 1782.
	Rolf Nolden Singularity 2011	The steel sculpture embedded in the pavement is dedicated to the physicist Stephen Hawking and his theory of the “invisible black hole”.
	Spiegelberg	The originally movable mirror installation on an artificial hill behind the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences has since been dismantled due to the disruptive lighting effects and damage caused by vandalism.
	under the direction of Hans-Günther Thiele district fountain 1985	The district fountain in the Friedenspark was built by 15 journeyman stone masons under the direction of Hans-Günther Thiele. It shows characteristics or scenes from the history of the individual districts.
	Siegfried Sandreuther stumbling block 1981	At the beginning of Ludwigsplatz there is this inconspicuous stone that is easily overlooked.
	Hans-Günther Thiele Peat Cutter Fountain 2003	The peat cutter well in the center of Maudach is a reminder of the time when peat was cut in the nearby Maudacher Bruch . Bronze figures of lapwing that were at the well had to be removed again as they were broken off several times.
	Barbara and Gernot Rumpf Zedwitz-Brunnen 2008	The Zedwitz fountain near the Hofgut von Mundenheim is named after the Baron von Zedwitz and alludes to local conditions: Petruskey in the local coat of arms, Mundenheimer Gockel, Gasthaus zum Schwanen, etc.
	Eugen Roth Two Blue 1998	This stainless steel room sculpture with a blue mobile is located in the courtyard of Maudach's assisted living .
	Bernar Venet Deux lignes indéterminées ( Two indefinite lines ) 1993	The steel sculpture, made on permanent loan to the museum by the support group of the Wilhelm Hack Museum , is made up of two monumental steel bands to form an irregular spiral.
	Diethelm Koch cylinder piece XXII , cylinder piece XXIII , cylinder piece LXVIII 1991, 1991, 2004	At the entrance to the Wilhelm Hack Museum are three sculptures made of wood and steel, in which Koch addresses three-dimensional space in his exploration of the Platonic bodies in the contrasting materials wood and Corten steel with cube, sphere and cylinder.

literature

• Marlis Jonas (photos), Richard W. Gassen (text): KunstRaum Stadt. Public art in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-936636-17-8 .
• Monika Henig: Sculptures and fountains in Ludwigshafen. A publication of the Stadtsparkasse Ludwigshafen am Rhein . Palatinate Publishing House, undated (1992)

Web links

Commons : Art in Ludwigshafen am Rhein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Sculptures in Ludwigshafen am Rhein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• SkulpTour Ludwigshafen - interactive map and photo gallery of abstract sculptures in the public space of Ludwigshafen (Welt-der-Form)