Sculptures in the Grugapark

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Ernst Seger : Javelin thrower from 1937
The park's first work of art: the deer by FP Zimmer
Georg Kolbe : Great bathers

In the Grugapark of the city of Essen , 44 sculptures and works of art are currently on display. They range from classic modern art to contemporary art and can be viewed on guided tours, among other things. Most of them are mostly permanent loans from private individuals, companies, foundations, museums or artists whose works are presented in the protected area. This makes it the largest sculpture park in the Ruhr area . The Grugapark collection also includes three works of art that are located outside the park in the Moltkeplatz sculpture ensemble and come from the gift of Roger Schimanski.

history

The Grugapark was opened in 1929 as the Great Ruhr Land Horticultural Exhibition (GRUGA). The second Reich Garden Show was presented here in 1938 and the eighth National Garden Show in 1965 .

The first sculpture came as a donation when the Botanical Garden was opened in 1927, the nucleus of the Grugapark. It was the bronze deer by FP Zimmer , an artist who later became an art professor in Atlanta and had a second cast of the deer set up in the Atlanta Botanical Garden .

Most recently, the Imploded pyramid sculpture by the artist Ewerdt Hilgemann in the perennial garden was added in October 2017 and the sculpture Lindwurm by Adolf Wamper in spring 2018 . On October 18, 2019, the sculpture Two Horses was inaugurated on loan from the Essen artist Johannes Brus near the Tummelwiese.

Works in detail

The large standing figure from 1932 by Josef Enseling, a bronze sculpture that was erected south of the crane meadow, is no longer in the Grugapark . The alphabet of life , a wooden sculpture by Jems-Robert Koko Bi from Ivory Coast and Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, is also no longer there.

The almost three meter high sculpture of the Berlin bear made of Anröchter dolomite , which was created by the sculptor Herbert Lungwitz for the Grugapark and erected here on September 19, 1959, was erected on July 10, 1964 at the now Berliner Platz roundabout in Essen's west quarter . The words Think of Berlin are embossed in its stone base . The sculpture had been in storage since 2007 due to reconstruction of the square and was put up again in 2012 on the roundabout of Berliner Platz, which was completed two years earlier, in front of the employment agency. The memorial has been a listed building since 2016.

The dragon fountain created in 1963 by the artist Adolf Wamper - he himself called the sculpture Lindwurm - which stood at the youth center on Papestrasse in Holsterhausen , which was closed in 2011 , was renovated with around 25,000 euros and inaugurated on May 8, 2018 in front of the children's playhouse in Grugapark. The Freundeskreis Grugapark association took over a third of the costs, otherwise sponsors, politics and administration took part. With its colorful mosaic, it is the only colored sculpture in the park.

  • Sculpture selection

  • The Great Spirit by Alfred Hrdlicka (1971/73)

  • Orion by Matschinsky-Denninghoff (1987)

  • Great Adam by Gerhard Marcks (1953)

  • Meteorite by Jörg Engelmann (1998)

  • Layering by Thomas Lenk (around 1970)

  • Chattering Women by Herbert Lungwitz (1954)

  • Sun disk by Herbert Baumann (1961/1962)

  • Horses by Philipp Harth (1937/1938)

  • Crouching Boy by Robert Ittermann (1930s)

The full images of all works of art can be found under the Commons web link below.

literature

  • Julia Ruether: KunstWege - the collection in the Grugapark . 2013. Art guide with details on each work of art in the park and its artist

Web links

Commons : Sculptures in the Grugapark  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Press release of the city of Essen from October 18, 2019: "Two horses" - a new work of art for the Grugapark Essen
  2. ↑ Essener Grugapark receives new large-scale sculpture , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 9, 2018
  3. ↑ a b A dragon sculpture now adorns the Grugapark in Essen ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 9, 2018
  4. ↑ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 9, 1964: Fireworks over the new “Berliner Platz” ; accessed on May 9, 2018
  5. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen, Berliner Bär ; accessed on May 9, 2018
  6. ↑ Grugapark Foundation: Foundation association supports relocation of the dragon fountain ; accessed on May 9, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 41 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 13 ″  E