Caterpillar (sculpture)

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Sculpture "caterpillar"

Raupe is a light sculpture in Bremen . It is located in Bremen- Mitte on President-Kennedy-Platz at the Bremen State Archives and is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .

The work is attributed to Pop Art and was created in 1974 during the first public sculpture campaign.

The sculpture made of acrylic glass , polyester and foam on a steel pedestal comes from the sculptor Bernd Uiberall . A caterpillar hangs from a large plexiglass cube, "which looks very real in its design due to the many small hairs that are suggested". In the evening the work of art is illuminated.

literature

  • Otto Almstadt, Klaus-Dietrich Boehm, Moritz Bormann a. a .: Art in public space. Public sculpture event. Documentation . Senator for Science and Art (ed.), Bremen 1974.

Individual evidence

  1. k: art in public space bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '36.9 "  N , 8 ° 48' 54.9"  E