Art in public space in Magdeburg

In this list, art in the public space of Magdeburg and its large Neu Olvenstedt estate is systematically presented in images and explained using numerous sources.

Art in public space in Magdeburg

The state capital Magdeburg is rich in monuments, fountains and sculptures as art in public spaces . They come from past centuries, the modern age and the present.

image	Artwork / year	Artist	Remarks
	Faun fountain 1977/1986 bronze, clinker brick	Heinrich Apel (* 1935)	The Magdeburg artist and restorer Heinrich Apel created a large number of popular sculptures and fountains for public spaces. The Faunbrunnen, also known as the "Devil's Fountain", is located in one of the oldest shopping streets in Magdeburg, on Leiterstrasse. Two circular brick steps raise the main form to a pedestal. Various figures are gathered in, on and around a large bronze cauldron, people, animals, but also fauns, sirens and other bizarre beings. Location: Altstadt, Leiterstrasse 52 ° 7 ′ 41.1 ″  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 58.3 ″  E
	Hasselbach fountain 1890 sandstone, bronze	Karl Albert Bergmeier (1856–1897), Emil Hundrieser (1846–1911)	The 15-meter-high monumental fountain is dominated by a sandstone obelisk, on the sides of which sit two female and two male figures representing the industry, science, agriculture and handicraft. On the obelisk there is a bronze relief with the image of the mayor Hasselbach in profile. A large pool of water surrounds the central sculpture composition. A reconstruction of the monument can still be seen today on Haydnplatz. The representative Hasselbach fountain had to give way to the new street layout from Hasselbachplatz in 1927 and was rebuilt in 2002 by Peter Michael and Christoph Reichenbach at its current location, Haydnplatz. Location: Old Town, Haydnplatz 52 ° 8 ′ 29.8 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 22.3 ″  E
	Eisenbartbrunnen 1939 Shell limestone, bronze	Fritz von Graevenitz (1892–1959)	The Eisenbarthbrunnen is reminiscent of the work of the German craft surgeon, surgeon and star engraver Johann Andreas Eisenbarth , known as "Doktor Eisenbarth", very close to the location of the well donated to the city of Magdeburg by the Mitteldeutsche Landesbank. Location: Old Town 52 ° 7 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 24.9 ″  E
	Aerobiont 1 1986 chrome-nickel steel, aluminum	Jörg-Tillmann Hinz (* 1947)	The installation by Halle's steel sculptor moving in the wind was integrated into the urban space in connection with the renovation of the neighborhood around Hasselbachplatz at the end of the 1980s. Abstract forms on ball-bearing, differently inclined axes carry out movement patterns in light, gently gliding motion. 52 ° 7 ′ 13.3 "  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 41.2"  E
	Entrance gate of the monastery of Our Lady 1973 bronze	Heinrich Apel (* 1935)	The door knobs in the form of a woman's and a man's head at the entrance to the monastery of Our Dear Women, the municipal museum for contemporary art, were made by the sculptor Heinrich Apel. The Magdeburg Sculpture Park is located in the vicinity of the monastery . The sculpture park, which has been built in Magdeburg's old town since 1989, shows more than 40 different artistic positions by sculptors and artists. The works of art initially came from the collection of the Art Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg; they are sporadically supplemented by other contemporary contributions. Location: Old Town, Monastery of Our Dear Women 52 ° 7 ′ 36.2 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 13.9 ″  E
	Käthe Kollwitz (1958) / 1988 bronze, height 2.15 m, Magdeburg Sculpture Park	Gustav Seitz (1906–1969)	The sculpture by Gustav Seitz shows the seated Käthe Kollwitz . Her left hand reaches for a sketch folder standing next to her, in her right hand she holds a pen. Seitz, who had met Käthe Kollwitz while studying at the Berlin-Charlottenburg School of Art, based his work on a self-portrait made by Käthe Kollwitz in 1938. The sculpture , which has been in Berlin since 1958, was cast again in bronze in the original plaster mold for the Magdeburg location in 1988.
	Ascending 1966/67 bronze, 2.26 m sculpture park Magdeburg	Fritz Cremer (1906–1993)	Internationally known was the one conceived in climbing man pointing plastic Rising , as it was given by the GDR in 1975, the United Nations and was erected in the park of the UN headquarters in New York City. Second casts are located in the Magdeburg Sculpture Park and in front of the Rostock art gallery . With his work, the communist Fritz Cremer expressed the struggle and suffering of the people in their striving for liberation from the shackles 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.
	Big striding man 1969 bronze sculpture park Magdeburg	Wieland Förster (* 1930)
	Female swimmer 1969 bronze sculpture park Magdeburg	Jenny Mucchi-Wiegmann (1895–1969)
	Inborn Power 1970 concrete 76 cm sculpture park Magdeburg	René Graetz (1908–1974)	Inborn power to German about Natural Power , is an abstract sculpture. The sculpture, which is vaguely reminiscent of a cat, is described in the literature as a "structure of biomorphic three-dimensional elements". René Graetz initially created concrete figurative representations of people. After he met Henry Moore in London in 1945, he broke with his previous work and found a completely new formal language for him by orienting himself on Moore's abstract work. The English title, which is unusual for a work created in the GDR, symbolizes this special development for sculptural works in the GDR.
	Large Neeberger figure 1971–1974 / 1997 bronze, 3.18 m sculpture park Magdeburg	Wieland Förster (* 1930)	The sculpture by the sculptor Wieland Förster was created with several revisions in the years 1971 to 1974 and 1997. The large Neeberger figure is considered one of the most important works of sculpture in the GDR. It depicts a woman with her arms stretched out, the proportions being clearly overstretched. The figure is only clothed with a piece of cloth that covers the face and shoulders and rests on the breasts.
	Hideout II 1979/1980 ductile iron, steel 1.51 m high 3.87 m long, Magdeburg Sculpture Park	Schang Hutter (* 1934)	The term Vertschaupet comes from Swiss German and means something like trample . Schang Hutter dealt with the question of possessing power and causing suffering. He wanted to address the overlooked, pushed to the side, suppressed and left alone. The man-made possibilities of destroying other people preoccupied Hutter. Eight figures reminiscent of stick figures stand, sit or lie on a surface. Some are part of the surface and sunk into it. The installation Vertschaupet II goes back to a corresponding work formed from simple wooden slats. The shape of the figures is typical for Hutter, for whom it is sufficient to indicate the direction of the figure, to indicate the inner state and to circumscribe the space without depicting the figure in its entire form. The installation is located north of the Green Citadel of Magdeburg, the Magdeburg Hundertwasser House. 52 ° 7 '39.1 "  N , 11 ° 38' 3.7"  E
	Standing and resting group 1979/1985 bronze sculpture park Magdeburg	Sabina Grzimek (* 1942)
	End time 1983 Cast iron 2.01 m Magdeburg Sculpture Park	Helmut Lander (1924-2013)	Five large figures or their outlines stand on a concrete surface. Their shadows, some of them mutilated, lie in front of them. The installation Endzeit deals with the consequences of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Helmut Lander refers to the extremely powerful effect of the atomic bomb, after which people were completely destroyed and only shadows of their outlines could be seen on ruins or paths. The work of the artist, who then lived in the Federal Republic of Germany, was created under the impression of the stationing of nuclear medium-range weapons in the Federal Republic following the NATO double resolution. The installation is located north of the Green Citadel , the Magdeburg Hundertwasser House, on Erhard-Hübener-Platz.
	Werra and Saale 1982–86 bronze sculpture park Magdeburg	Werner Stötzer (1931-2010)	Two women sit tightly embraced on a platform, Werra and Saale. Werner Stötzer alienates the two rivers as women in his sculpture.
	Art look 1996/98 steel, glass height 1.30 m, Magdeburg Sculpture Park	Dagmar Schmidt (* 1963)	The sculpture was the only Magdeburg exhibit in the exhibition Extended Happy Future - Art ____ Saxony-Anhalt 1999 and was selected as a specific contemporary artistic position in the sculpture park. 52 ° 7 '34.6 "  N , 11 ° 38' 14.7"  E
	Glasshouse 1996/2005 tubular steel 6 m × 4 m × 20 m sculpture park Magdeburg	Johanna Bartl Wieland Krause Olaf Wegewitz	The installation was donated to the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of Magdeburg in 2005. The greenhouse was originally part of the greenhouse facility at the Vockerode power station , the largest greenhouse facility in the GDR, which was shut down together with the power station in 1991. The inside of the greenhouse framework is not mowed or otherwise processed. The increasing vegetation is therefore part of the work of art. The project is accompanied by an artistic archive in which photographs, drawings, videos and other documents relating to the course of the sculpture's existence are preserved. The work thus consists of the mental experiment, the natural growth and the observation of what is happening. The greenhouse was dismantled at the end of September 2013. 52 ° 7 '35.2 "  N , 11 ° 38' 17"  E
	Chrysalis Magdeburg 1996/2006 bronze, brass 75 cm × 21.5 cm × 74.4 cm (W × H × D), Magdeburg Sculpture Park	Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006)	The sculpture shows a bronze ship's propeller lying in a container made of brass. The container resembles a wooden pallet. One of the wooden-looking brass struts bears the inscription Chrysalis. Chrysalis is the period in which the metamorphosis of an insect takes place or the pupa, i.e. the metamorphic insect itself. In the artwork, the propeller is the object in the process of metamorphosis. The work was proposed by Finlay for the exhibition Wasser, Strom, Zeiten DIE ELBE [in] between at the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg. The work goes back to the “one-word poem” Crate (dt. “Box”) created by Finlay. Finlay saw in the great biodiversity that results from the evolutionary history associated with constant adaptation and specialization and combining aesthetics and functionality as a model for the ethical goals of mankind.
	Magdeburg rider 13th century sandstone	anonymous	The Magdeburg rider is the first free-standing equestrian statue north of the Alps and was created in the middle of the 13th century. A copy, made by the Magdeburg sculptor Heinrich Apel in 1966 and gilded in 2000, is on the old market. The original group of sculptures has since been kept in the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum for conservation reasons. 52 ° 7 '53.4 "  N , 11 ° 38' 21.7"  E
	Luther monument 1886 bronze, granite	Emil Hundrieser (1846–1911)	The Berlin sculptor Emil Hundrieser created the bronze statue (cast by the Gladenbeck bronze foundry, Berlin) in 1886 to commemorate Martin Luther's sermon on June 26, 1524 in this church. After 1989 the monument was given a new base with the inscription “God's word with us in eternity”. Location: Sankt-Johannis-Kirche, old town
	Memorial for the Magdeburg resistance fighters 1965 bronze, concrete	Eberhard Roßdeutscher (1921–1980)	The memorial created by the Magdeburg sculptor Eberhard Roßdeutscher commemorates 62 Magdeburg citizens murdered during the Third Reich. Location: Steubenpark (in the triangle between Steubenallee, Harnackstraße and Schellingstraße), old town
	Otto von Guericke monument 1907 bronze, granite	Carl Echtermeyer	The monument pays tribute to the natural scientist and mayor of Magdeburg Otto von Guericke . Location: old town
	Magdeburg hemisphere experiment 2002 bronze, stainless steel, concrete	Thomas Virnich (* 1957)	The Braunschweig professor Thomas Virnich created this large-scale sculpture in memory of the Magdeburg hemisphere experiment of 1657 by Otto von Guericke. Location: Ratswaage-Platz 52 ° 7 ′ 59.6 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 16.1 ″  E
	Terracotta relief around 1988 brick	Bruno Groth (1926-2018)	In the entrance area to the administration building, Bruno Groth created a wall relief that was consistently reduced to the basic material terracotta. The material determines the color palette. The artist plays with these colors and the shape of the brick on the surface. Location: Sieverstor-Straße
	Diana Forced Labor Camp Memorial 2005 marble	Wolfgang Roßdeutscher (* 1945)	The Diana forced labor camp in the Westerhüsen district was built in 1942 on an area that had previously been used as a sports field since 1925; the client was the Fahlberg-List chemical plant , whose production facility was located further to the northeast. The camp was located immediately north of the Westerhüsen cemetery, west of Holsteiner Strasse. Today the Tonschacht sports field is located on the site. The exact number of people who died as a result of forced labor is not known. In 2005, a memorial stele created by Wolfgang Roßdeutscher was erected to commemorate the camp.

Art in public space in Magdeburg Neu Olvenstedt

The Neu Olvenstedt district of Magdeburg was built in the 1980s as an “experimental complex” for the socialist housing construction of the future. Part of the planning was a comprehensive art concept with sculptures, fountains and ceramic pictures as well as coordinated systematic color design of the house facades. The Neu-Olvenstedter artworks are representative of the time they were created; Well-known Magdeburg and Saxony-Anhalt artists such as Heinrich Apel, Manfred Gabriel, Bruno Groth, Klaus F. Messerschmidt, Annedore and Wolfgang Policek are their creators. On the subject of Kunst Neu Olvenstedt , the office for district work is committed to the rediscovery of these works of art; Art city walks and workshops are intended to draw the attention of residents and culturally interested people from elsewhere to the district and its works of art.

image	Artwork / year	Artist	Remarks
	Water strider 1992 bronze, originally partially colored	Klaus Friedrich Messerschmidt (* 1945)	The circular fountain basin is formed by a shallow channel. In the middle of the calm water surface, the bronze figure walks with arms spread out to the sides. The feet of the strider stand on two stainless steel plinths that are below the water level. The fountain sculpture was originally created after the completion of the diversified marketplace area from an artistic competition. The square, slightly lowered in the middle, is reserved for pedestrians and cyclists, and only on its southwestern side is a one-way street that leads past the square. The fountain forms the center of the radially symmetrical design of the square and, following the demolition of the rear wall of the square and the north-western residential buildings across the market, with its vertical shape, conveys the central axis of the new park. The mostly calm, circular water surface frames the figure and delimits an autonomous area for it. The reflection of the figure and the colors of the sky on the surface of the water literally opens the work of art to the cosmos. Total height of the sculpture 1.90 m, diameter of the fountain basin 5.10 m, depth of the basin 15 cm. 52 ° 8 '55.9 "  N , 11 ° 34' 50.4"  E
	Children playing 1991 bronze, sandstone	Heinrich Apel (* 1935)	The well-known Magdeburg artist and restorer Heinrich Apel has been working at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle (Saale) in the city of Magdeburg since graduating from Gustav Weidanz in 1959 and has since created numerous well-known sculptures and fountains for public spaces. This fountain should be “the intersection of market width, Dr. Eisenberg plan and Brunnenstieg ”emphasize urban planning. The two main characters crown the radially symmetrical basin of this fountain with a clover-leaf-shaped floor plan. A standing boy with a newspaper hat on his head and a towel over his shoulder appears to be playing a smaller child lying on his back and splashing water on his face from a shoe, which in turn spits water on his playmate. The fountain basin stands in the middle on a circular, step-high base. At the points of contact of the convexly curved plates of the pool edge, detailed figurines - frog, lizard, crab and snake - are arranged. The frog is accompanied by a small dog figure looking around fearfully. The choice of the animal suggests vanitas symbolism, so that the children's scene seems to challenge further iconographic interpretations with the props paper hat = fool's cap, shoe and exuberant to uninhibited play. Location: Brunnenstieg 52 ° 9 ′ 11.8 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 3.5 ″  E
	House sign 1985 glaze on ceramic	Manfred Gabriel (* 1939)	Numerous house signs were designed by the artists Frank Borisch, Manfred Gabriel, Annedore and Wolfgang Policek for the new district, implemented in glazed ceramic tiles by Bruno Groth in the VEB Plattenwerk Meissen and mounted on the reinforced concrete facade panels. The house signs in Neu Olvenstedt are to be seen as a conscious quotation and at the same time as a contemporary form of the house signage using symbolic images, which has been widespread in Magdeburg since the Middle Ages. She classifies this in the history of urban construction. In the Marktbreite district there are still 3 overhangs: house numbers 110, 111, 112. The example shows the entrance to Marktbreite 112 in 2012. 52 ° 9 '9.1 "  N , 11 ° 34" 59.9 "  E
	aviation 1991 Silicate painting on concrete	Annedore Policek (* 1935), Ursula Schneider-Schulz (* 1929)	The concrete form of the sculptor Ursula Schneider-Schulz was designed by the painter and textile artist Annedore Policek with abstract form elements from the world of traffic. The plastic identification mark marks the children's facility “Die Brücke Magdeburg e. V. “in urban space. The approx. 235 cm high sculpture with a base was completely restored in 2009 due to damage from graffiti, weathering of the paint and moss growth and was repainted with a different design by Annedore Policek for the occasion. Location: Bruno-Taut-Ring, next to “Die Brücke Magdeburg” e. V. 52 ° 9 '13.4 "  N , 11 ° 34' 51.6"  E
	Snake, metal animal 1990 V2A steel approx. 2.50 m	Hartmut Renner (* 1951)	As a reminiscence of the once important steel and metal industry in Magdeburg, a series of metal works of art were commissioned for Neu Olvenstedt, including Hartmut Renner's snake. A square metal worm winds its way along the footpath and invites the children to climb and slide. Along the way, a square metal worm creeps on the edge of the footpath. Hartmut Renner , a graduate of Irmtraud Ohme at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Art , is known in various cities for his steel sculptures in public spaces. Location: Market latitude 52 ° 9 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 56.9 ″  E
	Stones along the way, animal plagiarism 1984 clinker brick, concrete, five parts each approx. 1.3 × 0.8 × 0.6 m	Ute Scheffler-Schwenke	The group of sculptures is also known as "play sculptures on the park path". They underline the ideas of the visual artistic concept in the 1st construction phase of the Parkweg district, for which usable works of art should be created that are particularly aimed at children and young people. The rustic objects actually invite you to play and sit on them. In the inlays made of clay, silhouettes and shadows of animals can be discovered. Location: Hans-Grade-Straße, Parkweg district 52 ° 9 ′ 12.7 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 17.3 ″  E
	shipping 1991 Silicate painting on concrete	Annedore Policek (* 1935), Ursula Schneider-Schulz (* 1929)	The concrete form of the stele by ceramic artist Ursula Schneider-Schulz, which is literally fused with the base, was designed by painter and textile artist Annedore Policek with abstract form elements. The plastic identification mark marks the entrance to the “Kinderhaus am Stern” in the urban area. The approx. 235 cm high sculpture with a base was completely restored in 2009 due to damage from graffiti, weathering of the paint and moss growth and was redesigned by Annedore Policek for the occasion. Location: Sankt-Josef-Straße, next to the “Kinderhaus am Stern”, 52 ° 9 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 45.1 ″  E
	Waldhof 1983 glaze on ceramic "Meißner Baukeramik"	Annedore Policek (* 1935), and Wolfgang Policek (* 1932 - 2000)	The community facility in the Waldhof was designed by the well-known artist couple with differentiated images that merge with the background of the facade. Abstract figures are imaginatively reminiscent of flora and fauna and appear almost exotic and playful. The form compositions accentuate the respective facade surface and tell stories with free ease between the light tile strips on the base and jamb. Location: Waldhof, Hans-Grade-Straße-24, Quartier Parkweg 52 ° 9 ′ 15.1 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 13.2 ″  E
	Fliederhof 1987 glaze on ceramic tiles	Bruno Groth (* 1931)	In Neu Olvenstedt there are several such neighborhood centers, so-called shared accommodation facilities. These are common spaces for the residents of the neighborhood. The artist Bruno Groth designed this building, inspired by the name of the courtyard, all around with floral-abstract shapes in green and purple tones. The building was demolished in May 2013. Former location: Johannes-Göderitz-Straße 52 ° 9 ′ 9.4 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 17.9 ″  E
	pergola 1989 ceramic, wood, steel	Igor Propopenkow, Lwow Gunter Wächtler, Berlin	The pergola made of elements turned on the potter's wheel creates a frame for the seating on the small intermediate plateau. According to the project developers' ideas, this “lingering area” should be equipped with a “natural, original design solution” and with “elements that are conducive to conviviality and communication” and should be used specifically by young people. Location: Market latitude 52 ° 9 ′ 3.3 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 59.2 ″  E
	Wind chimes pair of wings 1997 stainless steel, two-part	Wilfried Heider (1939–1999)	According to the Neu Olvenstedter art concept, eight kinetic metal sculptures were to be erected around the market width in the second construction phase, which thematize the formal elements of the heavy machinery construction, which was strongly represented in Magdeburg at the time, in an artistically exaggerated sense. This also included Wilfried Heider's Greyhound, which is now on the grounds of the Albert Einstein High School. Two six-meter-high stainless steel pipes each carry a row of lamellas placed one above the other at their upper end, which comb through alternately. The two wing-like “whisks”, made of hollow shapes open to one side, rotating in the wind, are designed on the inside in the color sequence of the rainbow. The office for architecture-related art of the district Magdeburg concluded on 20 September 1982 Wilfried Heider a contract for the kinetic metal sculpture from. It should find its place between gable 54 and the planned restaurant, according to the planning status in March 1983. In February 1989, September 1989 was planned as the date for construction, while in May 1991 only foundation work was mentioned in the current year. Finally, in 1997, the sculpture was erected in its current location. Location: Olvenstedter Graseweg 52 ° 9 ′ 13.8 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 45.3 ″  E

literature

• Heinz Gerling : Monuments of the city of Magdeburg. Helmuth-Block-Verlag, Magdeburg 1991.
• Coordination Council GDR / USSR (ed.): New residential complexes in the GDR and the USSR. VEB Verlag für Bauwesen Berlin 1987.
• State capital Magdeburg, City Planning Office Magdeburg (ed.): Documentation 34, Urban development in Magdeburg 1945-1990. Part 1: Plans and documents. 1998.
• Ernst Schubert: The Magdeburg Horseman. 1994, ISBN 3-930030-04-7 .
• Johannes Stahl: Extended Happy Future. The exhibition on the project Art ___ Saxony-Anhalt . Exhibition catalog, Halle (Saale) 1999.

Web links

Commons : Art in public space in Magdeburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pictures of the Magdeburg Sculpture Park
• Interactive sculpture directory

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Hornemann, From so far up to here, No. 9, Magdeburg 2009
2. ↑ Andreas Hornemann, From so far up to here, No. 9, Magdeburg 2009
3. ↑ Andreas Hornemann, From so far her up to here, No. 5, Magdeburg 2009
4. ↑ http://www.ravensburg.de/rv/tourismus/kultur/werner-stoetzer.php
5. ↑ Johannes Stahl, On telescopes and standpoints by Dagmar Schmidt, in: Stahl (Ed.), 1999: 130-134
6. ↑ Andreas Hornemann, From so far her up to here, No. 10, Magdeburg 2009
7. ↑ Magdeburg City Archives, Rep. 41 2338 fol. 4th
8. ↑ Magdeburg City Archives, Rep. 41 2338 fol. 5
9. ↑ Magdeburg City Archives, Rep. 41 2338 fol. 65
10. ↑ Magdeburg City Archives, Rep. 41 2338 fol. 5
11. ↑ Magdeburg City Archives Rep. 41 2338

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