Playing children (Hanover)

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The " scale game " between Hans-Peter Lehmann and his sister Catherine was in 1956 at the documenta to see

Playing children is the name of the fountain with the plastic of two children in the Grupenstrasse in Hanover . As early as the 1940s, the sculptor Kurt Lehmann used his own two children to play the “scales” as a template for his sculpture.

history

After the Second World War , during which almost half of the city of Hanover was destroyed by the air raids on Hanover , the sculptor Kurt Lehmann sketched two playing children during the time of the British occupation zone : Lehmann's son Hans-Peter and his daughter Katharina gave the artist in in 1946 and 1947 the suggestion for the later sculptural design of the playgroup.

The 1950s style fountain basin

After the reconstruction concept under the Hanoverian city planning officer Rudolf Hillebrecht with the new Grupenstrasse, which was laid out as a pedestrian zone from 1950 and opened in 1954, Kurt Lehmann had his two playing children cast in bronze in 1953 . The sculpture was then exhibited at the first documenta in 1956 and acquired by the city of Hanover. In the same year the sculpture was placed on a raised base in the newly created fountain made of shell limestone in the style of the 1950s . Since then, eight water jets have been directed inwards at a low height from the edge of the pool.

When the fountain in Grupenstrasse went into operation for the first time, nobody could have suspected that it would put Hans-Peter Lehmann, "the later artistic director of the Lower Saxony State Opera , an early memorial ."

When the entrepreneur Emma Böhmeke moved her music store in 1972 to the business building in Grupenstrasse, which was also built in the 1950s, she renamed her traditional music store, based on the fountain with the children playing in front of the striking shop window, into "Music Fountain".

Web links

Commons : Playing Children (Kurt Lehmann)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Rainer Ertel , Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch. Fountains and fountains in Hanover. Torch bearer, Hanover 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1497-X , p. 14
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.
  3. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Karmarschstraße , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and culture lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 155f.
  4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Grupenstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 100
  5. ↑ Thomas Kaestle: The music fountain shines in its old splendor / The traditional music store in Grupenstrasse is being renovated in close coordination with the monument protection authorities. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 5, 2017, p. 21

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 19.2 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 11.1"  E