Mannheim Sculpture Mile

The Mannheim Augustaanlage with the sculptures Großer Bug 2 (center), Mount Palomar (right), Untitled (tower) (left) and Eisenspiel für Mannheim (center); in the background the Mannheim water tower

The Mannheim Sculpture Mile is a sculpture path in downtown Mannheim ( Baden-Württemberg ) along the Augustaanlage .

Mannheim culture mile

The sculpture path is part of the Mannheim cultural mile along the Technoseum , Planetarium Mannheim , Kunstverein , National Theater , Congress Center Rosengarten , the Kunsthalle Mannheim with the sculpture garden of the Kunsthalle Mannheim , the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts , the city library, the N 1 town hall , the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences , Municipal Music School and the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums .

Since 1994, a collection of more than 60 modern and current works (including some loans) by German and international sculpture has been created along the sculpture path, representing various currents of current sculpture.

Collection (selection)

image	Artist	Title / year / notes
	Franz Bernhard	Die Große Mannheimerin or The Dancing Giant 1993 The almost 13 meter high sculpture is the beginning and the logo of the art mile.
	Mark di Suvero	Spring Rain 1992 Steel The steel sculpture in front of the Technoseum consists of signal red steel girders.
	Günter Wagner	Dynamic Rectangle 1994 Steel This sculpture is made of 6 cm thick, rectangular Cor Ten steel, which was also cut and welded back together in the middle. This creates the impression that the rectangle has only been cut above and below and bent apart in the middle.
	Andreas Mader	In the beginning ... 2000 Steel, wood Two panels of the large sculpture are penetrated by pieces of wood, which reproduce the first sentences of the Gospel of John, "In the beginning was the word ...", in coded form.
	Reinhard Scherer	Supported structure 1992 iron This sculpture stands directly in front of the Mannheimer Kunstverein .
	Hans Nagel	Untitled (tower) 1972 polyester and PVC
	Klaus Duschat	Mount Palomar 1993 Steel This sculpture is now on loan in the Heidelberg Sculpture Park .
	Mo Edoga	Himmelskugel driftwood After the artist's death, an examination by the legal office revealed that the city of Mannheim was never the owner of the "Himmelskugel". The bereaved refused to dismantle the sphere. It is in the artist's mind to see how the celestial sphere "develops".
	Robert Schad	Iron game for Mannheim 1993 square structural steel
	Christoph Freimann	Großer Bug 2 1986/1987 Steel, lacquered This sculpture came on loan from the State of Baden-Württemberg and the Kunsthalle Mannheim in 2011 to the Heidelberg Sculpture Park.
	Amadeo Gabino	Hommage à Friedrich Schiller 1992 Stahl In 2008 this sculpture was placed on loan in the Heidelberg Sculpture Park.
	Max Laeuger	Carl Benz Monument 1933 Kalkstein The Carl Benz Monument commemorates the invention of the automobile by Carl Benz from Mannheim . The front of the monument shows the relief of a man in a work smock standing in front of the first automobile. The memorial is one of the first to be erected for a technician.
	Max Laeuger	Carl Benz monument 2008 bronze This bronze replica of the first automobile was erected just a few meters from the Carl Benz monument as a gift from Daimler AG .
	Morice Lipsi	La Roue / Das Rad 1960 Stein The city of Mannheim bought the so-called Lipsi-Rad in 1964. In 1965 it was set up at the Carl-Diehm-Halle and was nicknamed "Mühlrad". Four years later, a truck driver knocked it over. Since then the wheel has broken. After the repair, the bike was placed at the art gallery. In 1975 it got its current place. The wheel is reminiscent of Karl von Drais , Carl Benz and Heinrich Lanz , who invented the bicycle , the car and the tractor in Mannheim .
	André Volten	Luftbrunnen 1973/1974 Stainless steel 24 hollow tubes protrude from a floor grille at the Rosengarten congress center at a height of 2.70 meters. They suck in the ambient air and supply the rose garden with fresh air, which is filtered and then fed into the interior of the congress center via the air conditioning system .

Web links

Commons : Sculpture Mile Mannheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website German cities: Mannheim

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '48 "  N , 8 ° 29' 8.2"  E