Leuna plastic park

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Walter Arnold , Carl Maria von Weber

The sculpture park Leuna poses with his sculptures and reliefs, a unique example of the visual arts of the 1950s and 1960s in the GDR . For the Garden City Leuna he is the only large green area of great importance and is crucial to the maintenance and development of urban open spaces .

history

Gustav Weidanz , swimmers , in the central square of the park
Heinz Beberniß , chemical worker
Gerhard Rommel , African dwarf goat
Karl Lemke , Maxim Gorki

The park was created in 1922 in connection with the construction of the garden city of Leuna as a Saale park . During the Second World War there was a flak position there and potatoes were grown on the site until the first post-war years. The facilities were then redesigned under the direction of the garden architect Franz Mengel .

In the early 1960s, Heinz Schönemann , director of the Moritzburg State Gallery in Halle (Saale) , today Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale) , contacted the Leuna works through the sculptor Heinz Beberniß and decided to set up a public exhibition space for contemporary sculptures . On July 11, 1962, an initially temporary exhibition with sculptures from 1947–1967 from the museum's holdings was opened in the hall complex; many works were cast especially for this purpose. In 1963 the temporary project became a permanent exhibition.

While the areas of the park belong to the city of Leuna, the sculptures are owned by the Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale) .

The park on the edge of the Gartenstadt-Siedlung, on the western high bank of the Saale , is also the starting point for hikes along the river and in the floodplains of the eastern bank of the Saale. The Saale cycle path runs below the park .

Further works by the artists Heinz Beberniß , Ingeborg Hunzinger and Gerhard Geyer can be found in front of the Kulturhaus Leuna , the medical center or the office center of the Leuna-Werke on Haupttorplatz across the urban space of Leuna . However, these sculptures are not assigned to the exhibition in the Plastic Park.

On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the establishment of the Leuna Plastic Park, the City of Leuna and the Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale) intensified their cooperation, looked after the park and restored some of the sculptures. A new brochure was published and a new interactive website was created.

Exhibited artists

Gerhard Geyer , African with child

The collection consists of over 30 sculptures by the following artists:

literature

  • Peter Romanus: Plastic Park Leuna . Halle / Saale 1987.
  • Schermer, Dirk Alexander: Plastik-Park Leuna, Stadt Leuna (ed.), Leuna 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-057310-1 .

Web links

Commons : Plastik-Park Leuna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.stiftung-moritzburg.de/plastik-park-leuna/50-jahre-plastik-park with historical photos of the construction and opening

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '44.4 "  N , 12 ° 1' 26.4"  E