Sculptures and objects in Lübeck
Sculptures and Objects in Lübeck lists panorama-free sculptures and objects in the city of Lübeck that are not memorials to a specific person or a specific event. Since they are often nameless, they will be assigned to the alphabetically listed artists here.
If a particular person or historical event is associated with a monument , it should be entered in the list of memorials and monuments in Lübeck .
Uwe Appold
- Gymnast
- Origin: 1985
- Material: stainless steel and aluminum
- Location: in front of the multi-purpose hall of the secondary school Travemünde am Steenkamp
Gerhard Backschat
Walkable play plastic
- Origin: 1974
- Material: concrete
- Location: as art in architecture at the Schlutup secondary school in Lübeck-Schlutup
growth
- Origin: 1975
- Material: color coated steel tube
- Location: Art in the building of Heimstätten GmbH at Mönkhofer Weg 63
Creare
designed together with Erich Lethgau
- Origin: 1977
- Material: concrete, some with color coating
- Location: Campus of the University of Lübeck near the transistorium
Free plastic
designed together with Erich Lethgau
- Origin: 1981
- Material: color-coated concrete
- Location: High-rise office building in Possehlstrasse
Ernst Barlach
- Community of saints consisting of the three figures: woman in the wind , beggar , singing monastery student.
- Material: hard-fired brick clay ( clinker )
- Location: Niche figures in the west facade of the Katharinenkirche
Christa Baumgärtel
Eve
- Origin: 1983 at the Lübeck sculpture symposium 1983
- Material: Cotta sandstone , an Elbe sandstone from the Pirna region
- Location: Citizens' Gardens , in the garden of the Holy Spirit Hospital
seal
- Origin: Gift from the Possehl Foundation in 1990
- Material: bronze
- Location: in front of the Museum for Nature and Environment Lübeck
Fritz Behn
Panther in the Lübeck school garden
Striding antelope near the Lübeck Holsten Gate
Striding antelope
- Origin: around 1925
- Material: cast bronze
- Location: in front of the hotel at the Holsten Gate
Lions on the Burgtorbrücke
- Origin: around 1905
- Material: cast bronze
- Location: These colossal statues of two seated lions watch over the castle gate bridge over the Elbe-Lübeck canal , on the outward side of the city towards the castle field .
St. Johannis
- Origin: 1907
- Material: cast bronze
- Location: The Johanneum's schoolyard houses the fountain decorated with the statue of John the Baptist; An error by the artist insofar as the name of the school comes from the St. Johanniskloster (Lübeck) and thus from St. John the Evangelist .
Panther
- Origin: 1934, purchased by the city in 1960
- Material: Lamprophyr from Ochsenkopf in the Fichtel Mountains
- Location: in the school garden , formerly Eschenburg Park
Snarling leopard
- Origin: 1932
- Material: cast bronze by C. Leyrers from Munich, which stands on a brick base.
- Location: Garden of the Behnhaus of the Citizens' Gardens
deer
- Origin: 1934
- Material: cast bronze
- Location: Entrance of the branch of the city library in Lübeck-Schlutup
Dying warrior
- Origin: 1919
- Material: shell limestone
- Location: Ehrenfriedhof
Front side inscription:
The one who was dearest to me, let it be a greeting of love to
all who fell like him, painful thanks once
(Verse by Otto Anthes )
Inscription on the back:
In memory of
Dr. jur. Hans Küstermann
fallen in the priest forest 1915.
Ulrich Beier
Fountain system
- Origin: 1973
- Material: basalt lava from the Eifel
- Location: Schoolyard of the elementary school Karavellenstraße in Lübeck-Buntekuh
Thomas Mann Stone
- Origin: 1975
- Material: marble from Greece on black basalt as a stele
- Location: in front of the former Mann's house at Breite Straße 38. Foundation of the Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein as a literary monument for the 100th birthday of the Lübeck-born poet and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann in front of the bank building that was demolished in 2008, now in front of the new department store on the corner of Breite Straße and Beckergrube .
Floor sundial with a three-part gnomon group
- Origin: 1977
- Material: basalt lava from the Eifel
- Location: Lübeck-Kücknitz school center , awarded the Junior Building Prize for Art and Architecture in 1980
Franz Bernhard
- Vital recumbent
- Made in 1990
- Material: steel
- Location: in front of the employment office on Berliner Platz
Alwin Blue
- Neptune advertisement
- Origin: 1930
- Material: terracotta, burned at Villeroy & Boch in the factory of the Dänischburg plant , on a clinker base
- Location: Lübeck ramparts near the open-air stage not far from the Wipper bridge over the Trave
Klaus Boesselmann
- Wind vane
- Origin: 1978
- Material: forging made of steel, hot-dip galvanized and painted
- Location: Art on the building of the former handling terminal at Skandinavienkai
- Whereabouts: needs clarification
Dietrich Jürgen Boy
- The Peace and other allegories , a total of eight figures and four vases
- Origin: 1774–1778
- Material: Elbe sandstone from Saxony, since 1985 copies made of stone substitutes (elements that were missing from previous acts of vandalism - magnifying glass of caution, blocking of Roman law, olive branch of peace, ... - were not taken into account in the remakes)
- Location: Puppenbrücke in the Lübeck ramparts in front of the Holsten Gate. There are copies there today, the originals are in the St. Anne's Monastery in Lübeck .
Heinrich Brand
encounter
- Origin: 1975
- Material: bronze
- Location: Art in the building of Heimstätten GmbH in Hugo-Distler-Straße 3
Forest of signs
- Origin: 1977
- Material: standard aluminum traffic signs on steel masts
- Location: Schoolyard of the Paul Gerhard School
links
- Origin: 1980/81
- Material: steel pipes
- Location: Financed from federal funds for a pilot project “Artists - Disadvantaged Groups of People” as art in building at the vocational training center, Rabbitborn 1–7
affection
- Origin: 1982
- Material: bronze on granite stele
- Location: Art in the building of Heimstätten GmbH in Achternhof 23–31
The Tiger
- Origin: 1983
- Material: bronze
- Location: Green area east of the Johanneum , by the old refectory of the Johanniskloster
Marianne Brand
- Playing the flute and listening
- Origin: 1970
- Material: terracotta on a brick base
- Location: In the community gardens behind the society house of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in front of the Lübeck Knabenkantorei pavilion
Gerhard Brandes
- Ascending form
- Origin: 1970
- Material: forging in copper on welded brass substructure
- Location: Lübeck University of Applied Sciences in Mönkhofer Weg 136–140
Bård Breivik
- Fall Shadow
- Origin: 1983 at the Lübeck sculpture symposium
- Material: Swedish basalt
- Location: Garden of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities of the Citizens' Gardens
Anatol Buchholz
- Play and seat plastic
- Origin: 1975
- Material: oak
- Location: in front of the school on Koggenweg
Statius of Düren
- Origin: around 1550
- Material: Renaissance building sculpture made of terracotta in serial production
- Locations: various in the old town; see main article about the artist
Georg Engst
Ground relief
- Origin: 1976
- Material: marble
- Location: Hans Christian Anderson School in Lübeck-Moisling
Creative stele
- Origin: 1985
- Material: bronze, rolled and welded
- Location: in front of the Telekom building in Fackenburger Allee in St. Lorenz-Nord
Uta Falter-Baumgarten
- 6 reliefs: The family , the community , the beautiful city of Lübeck , time , (blind) happiness , justice
- Origin: 1981
- Material: terracotta
- Location: at Braunstraße 25
Bruno Fischer-Uwe
- Old Lübeck and the monk being
- Origin: 1976
- Material: steel tape and copper
- Location: Private house Mönkhofer Weg 52
Lothar Fischer
Adam and Eve
- Origin: 2002/2003
- Material: bronze
- Location: Natural stone niches of the former west facade of St. Anne's Church to the left and right of the entrance portal to the forecourt of the St. Anne's Museum
Walli Gebhard-Linke
pupil
- Origin: 1960
- Material: limestone from Yugoslavia
- Location: Art in architecture in the school yard of the Froebel school
The one who listens
- Origin: 1962 as art in architecture
- Material: Savonnières limestone
- Location: Roter Hahn elementary school in Lübeck-Kücknitz
Hans in hapiness
- Origin: 1966
- Material: bronze
- Tremser Teich School (formerly Vorwerk School)
Karl Geiser
- Girl group
- Origin: 1965
- Material: bronze casting (replica), original between 1926 and 1938 for a high school in Bern
- Location: Foundation of Lübeck's honorary citizen Rodolfo Groth in the green area on Gustav-Radbruch-Platz ( Burgfeld )
Karlheinz Goedtke
cat
- Origin: 1961
- Material: cast bronze on marble base
- Location: Falkenstrasse 9 in Lübeck, in the main building of NEUE LÜBECKER eG
Seal couple
- Origin: 1961
- Material: cast bronze on a granite base
- Location: Lofotenweg and Nordmeerstraße in Lübeck Travemünde, at the NEUE LÜBECKER eG building
Playing bears
- Origin: 1960
- Material: artificial stone on a terrazzo base
- Location: Dreifelderweg nursing home
Flock of birds flying up
- Origin: 1963
- Material: Swarm of gulls in bronze on a base made of artificial stone as art in construction by the Hamburg Oberpostdirektion
- Location: Formerly in front of the demolished post office at Lübeck main station , today overbuilt by the Linden-Arcaden
- Where to go: Lübeck Roggenhorst, Hutmacherring 16 in front of the post office
St. Jürgen
- Origin: 1964
- Material: bronze sculpture of the district patron St. Jürgen on a concrete base
- Location: St.-Jürgen-Realschule
The conversation of the neighbors
- Established in 1986 (WkVZ No. 186)
- Material: group made of bronze, height approx. 210 cm
- Sculpture of the neighbors who came together to talk
- Location: Lübecker Bauverein residential complex, Theodor-Heuss-Str., Lübeck
Pony rider
- Origin: 1966
- Material: bronze on a granite base
- Location: Oldenburger Strasse / corner of Bornhövedstrasse as art in the building of Heimstätten GmbH
Three riders
- Origin: 1969
- Material: bronze on a granite base
- Location: At Behnckenhof 14 as art in the building of Heimstätten GmbH
The raven and the fox
- Origin: 1974
- Material: bronze statue in a concrete fountain
- Location: Art in the building of Heimstätten GmbH in Behaimring 1–7
Two cocks
- Origin: 1974
- Material: bronze on a granite base
- Location: Acquired in 1982 as Kunst am Bau by Heimstätten GmbH for Achternhof 23–31
Rolf Goerler
Sea mark
- Origin: 1970
- Material: three oak steles
- Location: Inner courtyard of the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences in Stephensonstrasse 1
Carpenters and bricklayers
- Origin: 1982
- Material: Limestone sculptures made of Gotland limestone from Kappelshamm in the north of the island
- Location: Art in architecture for the building trade guild in Georg-Kerschensteiner-Straße 32
Mercury
- Origin: 1985
- Material: Gotland limestone on Bornholm granite
- Location: in front of the Merkurhaus in Moislinger Allee 5–7
The devil
- Origin: 1999
- Material: bronze
- Location: on the Marienkirchhof at the Marienkirche
Claus Goertz
Sunday stroll
- Origin: 2008
- Material: wood and bronze
- Location: Wallstrasse, on a property owned by the Lübeck construction association
Johannes Brahms
- Origin: 2012
- Material: bronze
- Location: Meadow on the way from the Holstentorhalle to the pedestrian bridge in the direction of the music college
Ursula Hanke-Förster
mother and child
- Origin: 1966
- Material: bronze on a granite base
- Location: Formerly as art in the building in front of the meanwhile demolished health department of the city of Lübeck in Schmiedestrasse
- Whereabouts: unclear
balancing act
- Origin: 1967
- Material: cast bronze on a concrete base, financed by the Possehl Foundation
- Location: Brügmanngarten in Travemünde
Woman in the mirror
- Origin: 1970
- Material: bronze
- Location: Inner courtyard of the Dorothea Schlözer School on Burgfeld
Ursula Hensel-Kruger
- Red Rooster
- Origin: around 1960 as art in architecture
- Material: bronze
- Location: Lübeck-Kücknitz , Roter Hahn settlement, corner of East and West Prussia ring
Jan Jastram
- Open steles
- Material: oak wood
- Location: in front of the court house on Burgfeld
Alfred Klosowski
- Ceramic birds
- Origin: 1974, meanwhile in need of renovation
- Material: stoneware, colored glazed, fired by Walther Zander based on Klosowski's idea
- Location: Art in the construction of the BIG home building, which today belongs to Deutsche Annington, on the corner of Hamburger Strasse and Hudekamp
Jan Koblasa
Head plastic
- Origin: 1975
- Material: concrete
- Location: Paul Gerhardt School
Arabella
- Origin: 1983 at the Lübeck sculpture symposium
- Material: Marx green marble from Bavaria
- Location: South of the east choir of Lübeck Cathedral
Cathedral towers
- Origin: 1983 at the Lübeck sculpture symposium
- Material: Anröchter stone from Westphalia
- Location: Cemetery on the north side of the cathedral
Three standing
- Origin: bronze sculpture, 1980/81 gift from Consul Dietrich Schulz for the opening of the art gallery
- Location: forecourt of the St. Annen Museum
Hans Kock
- Flame sign
- Origin: 1984
- Material: granite from the Upper Palatinate
- Location: Fire station 1 of the Lübeck fire brigade on the driveway to BAB 1 Lübeck-Mitte
Georg Kolbe
hands
- Origin: 1939
- Material: cast bronze
- Location: Vorwerker Friedhof .
Proclamation
Joseph Krautwald
- The mother
- Origin: around 1960
- Material: Shell limestone from Krensheim in Lower Franconia
- Location: Ehrenfriedhof
Ludwig Kunstmann
- relief
- Origin: 1937
- Material: ceramic
- Location: Motorway bridge on Fackenburger Allee
Klaus Kütemeier
- Standing female figure
- Origin: 1980
- Material: black rock, ( diabase )
- Location: Garden of the Behnhaus Museum of the Civic Gardens
Richard Kuöhl
Helmet off to prayer
- Origin: 1924
- Material: shell limestone
- Location: Ehrenfriedhof
Thorbjørn Lausten
Light mirror
- Origin: 1994/95
- Material: neon tubes, glass plate and electronically controlled headlights
- Location: Hansehalle
Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler
Playing Children (1965)
- Origin: 1965
- Material: bronze
- Location: lawn of the swimming pool Kücknitz
Playing children (1968/1)
- Origin: 1968
- Material: bronze
- Location: Art in the building in the courtyard of the Otto Passarge School
Playing children (1968/2)
- Origin: 1968
- Material: bronze
- Location: Art in architecture in the school yard of the Mühlenweg elementary school in Lübeck-Moisling
Peter Lei
- Grown form
- Origin: 1983
- Material: granite from Upper Lusatia
- Location: Garden of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities of the Citizens' Gardens
Erich Lethgau
Joint work with Gerhard Backschat
See above in the Gerhard Backschat section
Waymarks
- Origin: 1979
- Material: concrete with partial color coating
- Location: Hans Christian Andersen School in Moisling, on the way to the sports hall
Rolf Lieberknecht
- Wind kinetic sculpture with two circular segments
- Origin: 1985
- Material: stainless steel
- Location: Moislinger Allee 1–3
Otto Mantzel
The hell
- Origin: 1936
- Material: terracotta relief
- Location: in the street Purgatory , on the Paradise of Lübeck Cathedral feeds
Frog prince
- Location: at the frog pond in Lübeck's city park near Roeckstrasse
Gerhard Marcks
- Community of saints with man of sorrows , arsonist , virgin, mother and child , Kassandra and prophet as the completion of the frieze begun by Ernst Barlach .
- Origin: 1949
- Material: hard-fired brick clay (clinker)
- Location: In the blind niches of the west facade of the Katharinenkirche
Johannes Michler
- Well of the golden sod
- Origin: 1991
- Material: stone
- Location: Corner of Breite Strasse / Mengstrasse
E. Müller (probably Ernst Müller-Braunschweig )
- Signed fountain sculpture Water-scooping girl by an unspecified Art Nouveau artist, called "Dorothea" by the Lübeckers.
- Origin: between 1910 and 1920
- Material: granite from the Fichtel Mountains
- Location: school garden
Heinz Neumann
- Seven towers
- Origin: 1970
- Material: hot-dip galvanized stainless steel
- Location: as art in the construction of the Neue Heimat in the Buntekuh shopping center
Waldemar Otto
- Revolving door
- Made in 1983
- Material cast bronze
- Location: Broad street at the T-point
- Gift of the Possehl Foundation to the Museum of Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1987)
Hans Pieper
Zodiac fountain
- Origin: 1939
- Material: terracotta, executed by the Hansische Bau- und Kunsttöpferei Karl Gieth and Karl Klippel in Lübeck
- Location: Geibelplatz in Königstrasse , next to the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital am Koberg (the central sun wheel and the surrounding signs of the zodiac were removed in the 1990s)
The twelve signs of the zodiac
- Origin: 1939
- Material: terracotta, executed by the Hansische Bau- und Kunsttöpferei Karl Gieth and Karl Klippel in Lübeck
- Location: Sana Clinics (former South Hospital), behind the administration building.
Erich Prussing
Boy and girl with schoolwork
- Origin: 1936
- Material: oak wood
- Location: Travemünde City School, Kirchenstrasse 3–5
Christian Daniel Rauch
The iron lions in front of the Holsten Gate ...
Lübeck lions
- Origin: 1823
- Material: cast iron
- Location: field side of the Holsten Gate .
Franz Reckert
Free plastic
- Origin: 1986
- Material: shell limestone
- Location: as art in architecture in the schoolyard of the Brothers Grimm School in Lübeck-Moisling
Technical signal
- Origin: 1985
- Material: stainless steel
- Location: Art on the building of the Hamburg Post Office, Postwerkstatt am Neuhof in Lübeck-St. Lorenz
- Where: to clarify
Günter Ferdinand Ris
Book wall
- Origin: 1981
- Material: stainless steel
- Location: Campus of the University of Lübeck at the central library
Stainless steel wall relief
- Origin: 1970
- Material: stainless steel
- Location: Art in architecture, financed by the Possehl Foundation , at the municipal youth and leisure center in Moisling
Georg Roemer
- The Lübeck theater in the Beckergrube was rebuilt in Art Nouveau 1908 by the architect Martin Dülfer . The reliefs in the main cornice of the sandstone facade are the work of Georg Roemer. The middle field shows Apollo and the nine muses , with comedy and tragedy on each side . The group of caryatids and atlases supporting the gable triangle is the work of the sculptor Karl Weinberger .
- One of the first memorial stones of the local cemetery of honor
- Origin: 1915
- Material: shell limestone
- Location: Lübeck Cemetery of Honor
Sven Schöning
- Together - Group of figures at the new Kaufhof -
- Material: bronze
- In front of the new Kaufhof the Neue Lübeck ,
HD Schrader
- Cubic objects
- Material: red painted shipbuilding steel
- Locations:
- In front of the castle gate ,
- Koberg corner King Street
Thomas Schütte
- Figure group The Strangers
- Material: glazed terracotta
- Location: On the roof corner of the music and congress hall on the Trave opposite the Beckergrube
Pierre Schumann
- Free plastic
- Origin: 1976
- Material: steel
- Location: Lübeck University of Applied Sciences , Stephensonstraße 3
Hans Schwegerle
Christ
In 1908 Herrmann Paulig added a 2.20 m high statue to the outside facade of the church in St. Lorenz. Originally, a holy Lorenz should be erected according to the name of the church . Ultimately, however, the decision was made for a statue of Christ. The artist donated a smaller version of the statue to the St. Anne's Museum in his hometown.
- Origin: 1908
- Material: shell limestone
- Location: St. Lorenz Church
St. Joseph
- Origin: 1908
- Material: shell limestone
- Location: northeast corner of the Catholic journeyman's house next to the provost church on the parade
Boy with tires
- Origin: 1930
- Material: cast bronze on a granite column in a clinker fountain
- Location: On the playground at the Kaisertor in the Lübeck ramparts, his boy with tires stands on a fountain column by the paddling pool.
Ben Siebenrock
- Ravages of time
- Origin: 1983 at the Lübeck sculpture symposium
- Material: Carrara marble
- Location: former hospital on Priwall
Renée Sintenis
- Daphne
- Origin: 1930
- Material: bronze. The sculpture, which was the only one that was gilded by the artist, was cast by the art foundry Hermann Noack from Berlin-Friedenau and re-gilded by her in 1961.
- Location: In the Behnhausgarten of the community gardens
Kiki Smith
- Mary Magdalene
- Origin: before 1996
- Material: cast bronze
- Location: in the courtyard between the Hanseatic Museum and the castle monastery
Guillermo Steinbrüggen
The quarrel
- Location: Alte Nordermole on the Travemünde beach promenade
Ingenium
- Location: Alfstrasse
- Origin: 1993
Curt Stoermer
sgraffito
- Sgraffito representations
- Location: at numerous apartment blocks built in the early 1950s on Kaufhof and along Brandenbaumer Landstrasse.
Lübeck seal
- slightly abstract representation of the medieval city seal of the city of Lübeck made of different materials (mosaic, iron)
- Location: on the east wall of Police Station I in Mengstrasse / corner of Fünfhausen
Ignatius Taschner
- Element fire and three other elements in the arched spandrels of the doll's bridge from the four-element theory
- Origin: 1907–1908
- Material: Elbe sandstone from Saxony
- Location: Puppenbrücke in the Lübeck ramparts in front of the Holsten Gate.
Peter Turpin
Service at the gate
- Group of steles
- Origin: 1994
- Material: painted metal
- Location: Willy-Brandt-Allee between the music and congress hall and the hotel building
Light sculpture
- Made in 2008
- Material: computer-controlled LED lights in granite channels under a glass cover
- Location: in the paving of the Koberg
- Demolition: October 2010
Georg Weiland
The five faculties
- Origin: 1965
- Material: bronze
- Location: above the portal of the Lübeck adult education center in Hüxstraße
The ear
- Origin: 1973
- Material: concrete with a stainless steel ball
- Location: Academy for Hearing Aid Acoustics
Vegetative forms
- Origin: 1973
- Material: concrete
- Location: Branch of the City Library in Lübeck-Kücknitz
Adam and Eve
- Origin: 1973
- Material: concrete
- Location: Front garden of a private house on Moltke-Platz
Günter Wiese
Big target board
- Origin: 1987
- Material: stainless steel
- Location: in front of the Landesbetrieb Straßenbau und Verkehr SH, Jerusalemsberg 9
Unknown artist
Mars
The Roman god of war Mars can be found carved in stone on the north facade of the armory .
- Origin: temporal classification required
Hygieia
Hygieia was the daughter of Asclepius in mythology
- Origin: first half of the 19th century
- Material: Carrara marble
- Location: Sana Clinics (Former Hospital South )
Madonna
- Origin: probably first half of the 19th century
- Material: marble?
- Location: above the entrance to the Marienkrankenhaus, parade
literature
- Klaus Bernhard: Plastic in Lübeck - Documentation of art in public space (1436-1985) in: Publications of the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck -Amt für Kultur- Series B, Issue 8, Lübeck 1986. ISBN 3-924214-31-X
- Finance Minister of Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.): Art in architecture. Art on state buildings in Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1985.
- Ulrich Pietsch, Wolf-Rüdiger Ohlhoff: Art in the City - Lübeck Sculpture Symposium 1983. in: Publications of the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck - Office for Culture Series B, Issue 2, Lübeck 1983.
Web links
- Lars Hennings: Sculpture - Object - Installation; 150 photos from Schleswig-Holstein 1999-2000 ( PDF )
- Art in public space Lübeck
Individual evidence
- ↑ clausgoertz.de
- ↑ Lübeckische Blätter 177 (2012), p. 131 (PDF; 2.4 MB)
- ^ Lichtspiegel , database art in public space in Lübeck , accessed on February 4, 2016
- ↑ Josephine von Zastrow, Kai Dordowsky: Koberg without art: excavators tear away light objects In: Lübecker Nachrichten of October 14, 2010, p. 13