Art in public space in Osnabrück

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Artworks and monuments in Osnabrück leads panorama free sculptures, objects and monuments in the Lower Saxon city of Osnabrück on. Monuments are mentioned that commemorate a specific person or a specific event as well as fountains, sculptures, memorial stones and plaques in public space ( art in public space ).

Most of the works of art and monuments in Osnabrück were created after the end of the Second World War .

The names of the artists are listed alphabetically. If artists are not known by name, the objects are named in alphabetical order, if necessary according to their location.

Until 1945

Adolf Graef, Haarmannsbrunnen

The Haarmannsbrunnen on Herrenteichswall, built in 1909, is one of the oldest workers' monuments in Germany. It is dedicated to the mining profession. The work of Adolf Graef (1862–1941) was donated by the steelworks director August Haarmann (1840–1913).

Friedrich Drake, Möser monument

The Berlin architect and sculptor Friedrich Drake (1805–1882) created the monument to Justus Möser , the most important Osnabrück politician of the 18th century. It was unveiled in 1836 on the Große Doms Freiheit square between the Osnabrück Cathedral and the Episcopal Chancellery . Originally, the monument was surrounded by a grid.

Justus Haarmann, Ebert-Erzberger-Rathenau memorial

The architect Justus Haarmann (1884–1968) designed the monument for the politicians Friedrich Ebert , Matthias Erzberger and Walter Rathenau on Herrenteichswall on behalf of the Reichsbanner . It was inaugurated in 1928, demolished in 1933 and renewed in 1983.

Emil Hackländer, memorial on Straßburger Platz

The Osnabrück city architect Emil Hackländer (1830–1902) designed the memorial on Straßburger Platz . It commemorates the fallen from the Principality of Osnabrück in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 and carried an allegorical Germania sculpture made of bronze. In 1880 it was built on Neumarkt and unveiled there. In 1928, the memorial was moved to Straßburger Platz in the Westerberg district. The Germania sculpture was melted down during World War II. Students from the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück designed the sculpture Die Schutzende Torsion , which was erected on the pillar of the memorial and symbolizes Franco-German friendship.

Hermann Hosaeus, war memorial at Bucksturm

On Bucksturm , a watch tower of the former city wall, a war memorial in was after World War Anröchter stone attached. The work Hermann Hosaeus ' (1875-1958) was inaugurated on October 1, 1922nd The monument is dedicated to the infantry regiment "Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig" (East Frisian) No. 78 . The original plan was to transform the area at Bucksturm into a green area. Since the roadways of the former Kaiserwall, now Heger-Tor-Wall, were widened, this did not happen.

Lukas Memken, lion poodle

In Osnabrück, Lukas Memken (1860–1934) has preserved a replica of the lion poodle from 1929 in front of St. Peter's Cathedral . The original of the lion poodle is in the city's cultural history museum. During the Second World War, Memken's metal figure of the shepherd's fountain on Rosenplatz was melted down. The sculptor Georg Hörnschemeyer created a stone replacement .

Heinrich Pohlmann, Stüve memorial

The memorial for the lawyer and politician Johann Carl Bertram Stüve was erected in 1882 on the Osnabrück market square, but was removed there during the National Socialist era. It is now on the Natruper-Tor-Wall in front of the Stüvehaus of the adult education center.

Heinrich Pohlmann (1839–1917), who was born in Bad Iburg- Glane, was a professor in Berlin.

Johann Christian Sieckmann, Waterloo Gate

The Waterloo Gate , designed by Johann Christian Sieckmann (1787–1861), commemorates the Osnabrück members of the King's German Legion in the battle of Waterloo . It was donated by Gerhard Friedrich von Gülich and built in 1817 at the Heger Tor on the site of a part of the defensive system that was demolished in 1815, consisting of a tower, gate, bastion, kennel and passage to the Heger Laischaft located out of town.

Wolfdietrich Stein, exhaust air column

In the former churchyard of St. Johann in der Neustadt, an underground toilet facility was built in 1929/1930, which is ventilated via the listed exhaust air column . The column designed by the architect Theo Burlage (1894–1971) is adorned with clay slabs and sculptures by Wolfdietrich Stein (1900–1941).

Rudolf Wulfertange, Lyra monument

The Osnabrück writer, painter and sculptor Rudolf Wulfertange (1884–1974), son of the woodcarver, sculptor and modeller Heinrich Wulfertange, created a monument to the clergyman and composer Justus Wilhelm Lyra ( May has come ) with the lyre stone created in 1905 . It is located in the southern area of ​​the palace garden near Schlosswall / Ritterstraße. The memorial stone was first erected at the Vitischanze and moved to the castle garden in 1985.

Osnabrück bike

The Osnabrücker Rad crowned the large south-west tower of the Osnabrück Cathedral . It fell down on September 13, 1944 as a result of the war. After the war it was restored and erected as a memorial to the south of the cathedral.

After 1945

Bernd Altenstein, The Trapped

The Trapped is a work by the sculptor and university professor Bernd Altenstein (* 1943) from around 1974 . The bronze sculpture is located in Osnabrück's old town on Dielingerstraße.

Joachim Bandau, tolerance. Equal weight - balance

The sculpture by Joachim Bandau (* 1936), erected in 1998 on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit in front of the Osnabrück Theater , was donated by the Herrenteichslaischaft .

FO Becker, Stahlbaum

The steel sculpture Stahlbaum (1994) by FO Becker stands in front of the entrance to the Osnabrück Zoological Garden . The artist comes from the Hunsrück and lives in Osnabrück.

Raimund Beckmann

The spiral fountain made of bronze (1986) on Kamp / Redlingerstraße is the work of the Osnabrück-born architect and professor at the Münster University of Applied Sciences , Raimund Beckmann (* 1938). The covering of the market fountain is also one of his works.

Wolfgang Bier, groping forward

The sculpture Groping Forward from 1991 is the work of the sculptor Wolfgang Bier (1943–1998). It is made of welded iron and bronze.

Heinrich Brummack, (fishing) city hare

In allusion to the river Hase , which flows through the city of Osnabrück, Heinrich Brummack (* 1936), participant in documenta 8 in 1987, created the fishing city ​​hare . His work from 1999, made of sandstone and painted metal on a double T-beam, is on the Hase near the Georgstraße / Öwer de Hase intersection.

Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Fountain of Wishes

The sculpture Fountain of Wishes by the Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo is located in the rabbit near the Stadt-Hasen and the Haarmannsbrunnen . As part of the “Colossal” art project, various works of art were exhibited in 2009 for the 2000th anniversary of the Varus Battle in the Osnabrück region. Castillo was involved in this project with four works of art, including Fountain of Wishes . Initially, the Fountain of Wishes was located at the Conrad-Bäumer Bridge, in 2012 it moved to the Çanakkale Bridge.

Gunter Demnig, stumbling blocks

Stolpersteine ​​have been laid in Osnabrück since November 2007 as part of a project by the artist Gunter Demnig (* 1947) . They are reminiscent of people who were expelled, deported, murdered or driven to suicide during the National Socialist era . (Selection) The trade unionist Fritz Szalinski, who is remembered in front of the former trade union building on Kollegienwall, was the father of the sculptor of the same name, Fritz Szalinski .

Nicolas Dings, The Liar

Nicolas Dings (* 1953) created The Liar (2005). The bronze sculpture on a terrazzo stele was set up in 2005 in a small green area with a fountain on the Heger-Tor-Wall below the Steigenberger Hotel Remarque, not far from the Dominikanerkirche art gallery.

Lutz Dölle / Roland Stelter, fragment of the rain

Fragment des Regens is the joint effort by Lutz Dölle (* 1958) and Roland Stelter (* 1953) from 1999. The portal made of marble, iron and steel with another single column dates from 1999. It is located in Osnabrück Neustadt at the southern end of Wassermannstrasse.

Lothar Fischer

The large seated female torso , a cast iron sculpture by Lothar Fischer (1933–2004), was set up on the open space on Bierstraße next to the Dominican Church art gallery .

The cast iron triangular figure is a work by Fischer from 1991. It is located in front of the employment agency building on Johannistorwall between Laischaftsstraße and Hermannstraße.

Axel Gundrum, memorial site "Hexenwahn"

The “Hexenwahn” memorial is located in Mühlenstraße near Hasestraße . It commemorates 276 women and two men who were executed in Osnabrück in the 16th and 17th centuries. For the memorial, the painter Axel Gundrum (* 1953) created two large-format wall paintings with the titles Hexenwahn from 1998 in the size 4.8 by 7 meters and The Mocking from 1999 (3.5 by 1.8 meters). In the painting Hexenwahn Gundrum takes up a self-portrait of the Osnabrück painter Felix Nussbaum from his painting Self-Portrait with a Jewish Passport . The Jewish artist, born in Osnabrück in 1904 and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, painted the undated picture after August 1943 in his hiding place in Brussels in Germany-occupied Belgium. A private citizen provided the site for the memorial site.

Heinz Heiber, Tree of Life

The tree of life in bronze created Heinz Heiber (1928-2003) in 1977. He is on the Krahn / corner Dielinger road. Another work by Heiber made of granite from 1980/1981 is in the Schölerberg district .

Manfred Heinze, art cell

The Osnabrück artist Manfred Heinze (* 1959) set up the art cell at Kokschen Strasse 79 in 2019. In a yellow telephone booth , changing works of art and installations by different artists can be found. The art cell is accessible from dawn until 11 p.m.

Georg Hörnschemeyer, Schäferbrunnen

The shepherd's fountain in the version by Georg Hörnschemeyer (1907–1983) was set up in 1950 on Rosenplatz . The fountain originally carried a sculpture by the sculptor Lukas Memken (1860–1934), who was born in Dersum . Its copper sculpture was melted down during the Second World War after a metal collection. The shepherd's fountain symbolizes the Good Shepherd . It is also known as the Ströker fountain, after the shepherd Heinrich Adolf Ströker, who died in 1909 and painted by Franz Hecker .

Johann Janikowski, Windthorst monument

The monument for the politician Ludwig Windthorst (1812-1891) in the form of a life-size bronze statue was created by the sculptor Johann Janikowski in 2008 and placed on the south side of the Osnabrück Cathedral in the immediate vicinity of the Osnabrück Wheel . On a memorial plaque is a well-known quote from Windthorst: I will represent the right that I claim for the Catholics and for the Catholic Church and its servants at all times also with the Protestants and no less with the Jews. I just want the right for everyone.

Friedel Kantaut, ... is watching you

In the public space of the city of Osnabrück there is an installation by Friedel Kantaut (* 1954) on the wall of the Osnabrück – Bremen railway line of the E.-M.-Remarque-Ring opposite the Pernick Tower. The 2.47 x 3.66 meter installation with the title ... is watching you made of screen printing with graffiti and a digital clock was created in 1993. It was an art-in-the-city project by Kantauts, which was carried out in cooperation with Michael Thomm (electronics) and Nico-Maxim Krämer (graffiti) emerged. The plant is owned by the city of Osnabrück. The art library of the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche in Osnabrück has other works by Kantaut .

Werner Klenk, Fritz Wolf Memorial

The monument to the Osnabrück caricaturist Fritz Wolf (1918–2001), who worked for decades for the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , the stern and the women's magazine Brigitte , has stood behind a passage between Markt and Domhof, which leads from Krahnstrasse to the northeast, since 2003. The bronze and marble monument was created by Werner Klenk (* 1942) from Oelde.

Joseph Krautwald, Path of Sorrows

On the Jewish cemetery, which protrudes into part of the Johannisfriedhof on Iburger Strasse / Magdalenenstrasse / Hauswörmannsweg, there is the sandstone sculpture Passion by Joseph Krautwald (1914–2003). The sculpture is at the back corner of the narrow side facing Magdalenenstrasse.

Rainer Kriester, Large Nail Head

The large nail head from 1981/1982 is a bronze sculpture by the sculptor Rainer Kriester (* 1935 in Plauen, † 2002 in Savona). It is located on the open space southwest of the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche . Kriester's sculpture Large white head mark is in Berlin in the interior of the Federal Chancellery .

Gudrun Kunstmann, the dog lover

The dog friend of Gudrun Kunstmann (1914–1994) was founded by the former zoo director Dr. Wolf Everts donated.

Kurt Lehmann, boy with a pigeon

The boy with a dove made of bronze by Kurt Lehmann (1905–2000) stands on the edge of the Osnabrück Neumarkt.

Heinz Mack, plastic identification

Heinz Mack (* 1931), co-founder of the Düsseldorf artist group ZERO , created the identification plastic in 1979 from ground and polished stainless steel. It is located in the palace garden between the Osnabrück Palace and the town hall.

Tud Majores, The Steel Worker

Tud Majores' (1908–2004) bronze sculpture The Steel Worker (also blacksmith with the crankshaft ) is a work from 1952/1953. It originally stood at the trade union building on Neuer Graben. Since 2003 it has been located on August-Bebel-Platz in front of the new building of the trade union building near Osnabrück Central Station.

Gerhard Marcks, The Fettered

Der Gefesselte by Gerhard Marcks (1889–1981) is a work from 1963/1964. The basalt sculpture bears the inscription "To the victims - for truth and freedom". It is located next to the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche on the southwestern side of the Bierstraße.

Walter Mellmann

The so-called fountain of tears by Walter Mellmann (1910–2001) is a water feature on Grosse Strasse / Georgstrasse. Mellmann created the bronze work on granite slabs in 1973. Another work by Mellmann in the city's public space, the bronze siblings , also dates from the 1970s . It is located at the Hasetorwall / Stüvestraße intersection. Mellmann, who worked as a freelance artist in Osnabrück from 1933, was also known as a nativity scene carver. He is one of the carvers of the Osnabrück nativity scenes made from a stick of wood . His most famous nativity scene from 1947 is in St. Johann .

Petra Murray, Osnabrück citizen and guests

The stele of Osnabrück citizens and guests made of ceramic tiles on a brick base stands in the square next to the Ledenhof not far from the Osnabrück Castle . It was created in 1982/1983 by the ceramic designer Petra Murray (* 1957).

Claire Ochsner, Solara

The sculpture Solara by Swiss artist Claire Ochsner (* 1948) is in the garden of Osnabrück Castle . The painted polyester work is movable; the energy is provided by solar cells. The seven meter high sculpture was erected in 1999 on the occasion of an environmental fair and should then be removed again. A school class collected signatures for the whereabouts.

Dennis Oppenheim, Battle Drums

The installation “Battle Drums”, created in 2009 by artist Dennis Oppenheim (1938–2011), stands on Theodor-Heuss-Platz in front of the main train station . It was set up there for the 2000th anniversary of the Varus Battle.

Waldemar Otto, man in November

Waldemar Otto (* 1929) will be represented in November with his plastic man in downtown Osnabrück . The bronze sculpture is on Grosse Strasse.

Rolf Overberg

The ceramic artist Rolf Overberg (1933–1993) is also represented in his hometown of Osnabrück with a number of works . These include the Ossenbrügge am Kamp in the city center, which thematizes the Low German name of the city, and the owl on Schloßstraße / Schloßwall.

Jochen Piepmeyer, Echo

The sculpture Echo by Jochen Piepmeyer (* 1944) was installed in the palace garden in 1989 . It is made of lacquered wood.

Stefan Pietryga

At the intersection of Fürstenauer Weg / Süberweg in Osnabrück- Pye is the work of art " Giving back the top of the mountain" by Stefan Pietryga (* 1954).

Hans Gerd Ruwe

The sculptor Hans Gerd Ruwe (1926–1995) created a large number of sculptures and fountains for his hometown Osnabrück. His best-known work in the city is the Bürgerbrunnen . His hobby horse rider on the east side of the Katharinenkirche is dedicated to the custom of Osnabrück hobby horse riding. Die Plastik The specialist is also popularly known as Till Ossenbrügge or “Broken Pipe Fountain”. The Shepherd at the Tränke (1983) stands next to the monastery church of the Gertrudenberg monastery . The man with the lute is located in the green area on the Riedenbach south of the Schölerberg between Ameldungstrasse / Pattbrede and Schölerbergstrasse. At Vitihof (near Hasestrasse) is the fountain The Washerwoman (1983). In Osnabrück Zoo his bronze sculptures are Eagle (late 1960s / early 1970s), Panther (1978), Animal Court (1978) and ducks tree (1990). There is also a memorial stone for Wilhelm Karmann , who donated the South America House. For this, Ruwe created the bronze plate with the portrait of the Osnabrück entrepreneur. Further works: Pan , 1982

Stefan Schwerdtfeger, cloud fountain

Stefan Schwerdtfeger (* 1928), architect, painter and sculptor and from 1971 to 1993 professor at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover , created the granite cloud fountain (1978–1980) for the main administration of the Osnabrück municipal utilities in Buerschen Straße / corner Sandbachstraße , Concrete and stainless steel.

Manfred Setzepfand, bust of Adolf Reichwein

The bronze bust of the pedagogue and resistance fighter Adolf Reichwein , a work by the teacher and sculptor Manfred Setzepfand (* 1929) from Bad Essen , was erected in 2004 on the green space between the streets of Kamp and Alte Münze, Adolf-Reichwein-Platz. The former University of Education in Osnabrück, from which the University of Osnabrück emerged in 1974 , was named Adolf Reichwein University.

Bonifatius Stirnberg, Standsbrunnen

The booth fountain was created by Beuys' student Bonifatius Stirnberg (* 1933). The bronze work from 1980/1981 is on the open space next to the former collegiate church St. Johann in the Neustadt. It reminds of the historical estates .

Fritz Szalinski

The sculptor Fritz Szalinski (1905–1978) created a series of works that can be found in the public space of his hometown Osnabrück. One of them is the Franz Hecker memorial stone from 1967 with the dates of Hecker's life and the inscription The painter of the Osnabrück landscape and its people in memory at the southern end of the green area on Riedenbach near Schölerbergstrasse. The door handle Friede 1648 made of bronze on the entrance door of the Osnabrück town hall in memory of the Peace of Westphalia , which was negotiated and agreed in Münster and in Osnabrück town hall , is particularly well known . The door handle shows the six-spoke wheel from the city's coat of arms and the inscription Friede 1648 . A 25 centimeter high dove of peace sits on the handle . Seven of his works are in the old town of Osnabrück.

Other works

  • Bear Group , 1949
  • Bear group with cubs , 1953
  • Deer , 1950s / 1960s
  • Bears , around 1958
  • Angel from the memorial to the fallen soldiers of both world wars , 1964
  • Lookout , 1967
  • Girl with a bird , 1969
  • Heron group , 1969
  • The kneeling woman , 1969

Volker-Johannes Trieb, coexistence

A series of works by Volker-Johannes Trieb (* 1966) can be found in Osnabrück, including Coexistence from Welded Iron from 1998. For this he received first prize in the 1999 arte regional II sculpture competition . Several of his peace riders, who symbolize the messengers on horseback between Osnabrück and Münster during the peace negotiations in the two cities to settle the Thirty Years' War , are on the city's major roads. The renewal of memory is in the palace garden.

Other works

  • Taurus Sign , 1998
  • Cottage garden , 1999
  • Altar , 2001
  • Synergy , 2001
  • Force in Time and Space II , 2005

Holger Voigts, o. T.

Next to the late Gothic church of St. Katharinen / Hakenstrasse is an unnamed group of sculptures by the sculptor Holger Voigts , who was born in Bremen in 1952 and is one of Waldemar Otto's students . The sandstone and bronze work dates from 1990.

Frauke Wehberg

The bronze sculpture Lily by the Schleswig-Holstein-based artist Frauke Wehberg (* 1940) stands on the southern front of the former abbess house of the Gertrudenberg monastery . Your dove of peace is close by in front of the stairway to the former monastery church. The line from 1989 is at the entrance to the Osnabrück Public Prosecutor's Office, Kollegienwall 11.

Other works

  • Staff of Aesculapia (1986)
  • Hahn (1986)

The Old Synagogue Memorial

The memorial erected in 2004 in the "Alte Synagogen-Strasse" commemorates the Old Synagogue , which was demolished after the November pogroms in 1938 . The design is by Richard Wilhelm Bitter, the inscriptions on the panels by Peter Junk. The memorial was erected by vocational school students from Osnabrück. As early as 1978 , memorial plaques in German and Hebrew as well as a representation of the synagogue were attached to the extension of the former Osnabrück district government on whose area the synagogue was located.

Various artists

Figure study

In Georgstraße the rabbit bridge is level with something in the background on Haseufer the metal sculpture Figurenstudie . It was made by trainees at Wilhelm Karmann GmbH based on one of his drawings as part of an exhibition for Luca Cambiaso in 2007 in the Museum of Cultural History in Osnabrück .

Works of art and monuments that no longer exist

Nicolae Covaci, Gladiator 2000

The monumental painting "Gladiator 2000" by Nicolae Covaci was from 1986 to 1999 at the sports hall on Schloßwall . It was applied to PVC plastic canvas with screen printing inks. It was removed in 1999 due to the severe weathering that occurred after years of outdoor use.

literature

  • City of Osnabrück, the Lord Mayor, Department of Culture, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche (Hrsg.): Art in public space . Osnabrück 2007

Individual evidence

  1. Ebert Erzberger Rathenau memorial
  2. Stumbling blocks in Osnabrück with images and coordinates ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stolpersteine.mattern-online.info
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  5. Nussbaum's self-portrait with a Jewish passport
  6. Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, Museum and Art Association Osnabrück (ed.): Felix Nussbaum . Bramsche 1995. pp. 413-416 ISBN 3-930595-13-3
  7. Exhibitions in the smallest of spaces . In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . 19th June 2019.
  8. Friedel Kantaut at chronosroma.eu  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.chronosroma.eu  
  9. Rainer Kriester
  10. Petra Murray on the website of the Association of Krippenfreunde Osnabrücker Land-Emsland  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.krippenverein-osnabrueck.de  
  11. Claire Ochsner
  12. Solara - a school class campaigned for the preservation ( memento of the original from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.osnabrueck-net.de
  13. ^ Adolf-Reichwein-Gesellschaft ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adolf-reichwein-gesellschaft.de