Street of Sculptures (St. Wendel)

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The street of the sculptures is located in the northeast of Saarland and leads from St. Wendel to the Bostalsee . The sculpture trail was initiated by the St. Wendel sculptor Leo Kornbrust in 1971. It is dedicated to the German-Jewish sculptor and painter Otto Freundlich who was murdered by the National Socialists and who came up with the idea of ​​a street of sculptures in the 1930s. This road of brotherhood and human solidarity should lead from Paris to Moscow .

Since 1971, a total of 57 sculptures by 51 artists from 12 countries have been created and set up along an approximately 25 km long section of the Saarland circular hiking trail. It all started with the International Sculpture Symposium at Baltersweiler's height in 1971/72. This symposium was included in the Sculpture Street, which was worked on from 1977 to 1988. The route was expanded during the 1993 trilateral sculpture symposium. Between 1996 and 2001 five more sculptures were added. The steel sculpture “Tor für Leo” by Gerd Winner was installed in 2014 as the last work of art .

Development of the project

International stone sculptor symposium St. Wendel 1971/72

Part of the symposium: "Horizontal unfolding" by Takera Narita , 1971

In the summer of 1971 the first Saarland sculpture symposium took place for three months on the heights near Baltersweiler . This year, apart from Leo Kornbrust, a total of 11 artists from four countries took part, including Karl Prantl , the initiator and founder of the world's first sculpture symposium in Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland . In the following year the action was continued with three other artists. A total of 14 stones were processed by 15 artists from six countries. With that the "International Stone Sculptor Symposium St. Wendel" was completed.

Expansion 1977-88

Part of the expanded sculpture route: “Wolkenstein” by Franz Xaver Ölzant (1979) - near Güdesweiler
Leo Kornbrust : Love Throne (1979) on the Bostalsee
Shlomo Selinger : “Requiem for the Jews” (1980) - Bostalsee
Shlomo Selinger : "Love" (1982/2010) - St. Wendel

In the years 1974-75 the Saarland circular hiking trail was laid out, which leads over the site of the symposium near Baltersweiler. In this context, the idea of ​​a "street of sculptures" arose. As a prelude, two sculptures were created in 1977, the “Fish Head” by the artist Han van Wetering and the “Big Foot” by the sculptor Yoshimi Hashimoto. The two sculptors Franz Xaver Ölzant and Leo Kornbrust officially opened the actual sculpture street with their works in 1979 . Other works by other artists followed. In 1988 the street was completed with the completion of the work by Dorothee von Windheim . By then, a total of 35 artists from 10 countries had presented their works. Together they created 38 sculptures of various artistic styles.

Sculpture Symposium 1993

In 1993 the International Society of Fine Arts in Bonn commissioned Leo Kornbrust with the project management of a trilateral sculpture symposium, which was held in the context of the 30th anniversary of the Franco-German Youth Office and the 25th anniversary of the Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse in the " Grenzland “Saarland should take place. In the autumn of the same year 15 young artists came to St. Wendel. Nine of them created permanent works on the sculpture street; three created temporary projects in the landscape, two opted for a museum project in St. Wendel and one artist for a conceptual work that was also presented in the museum. The sculpture road was extended by 5 km to the Peterberg near Braunshausen .

The years 1996-2001

In the years 1996–2001 the street was expanded by five sculptures. Two of these were created in direct engagement with the surrounding landscape: a steel sculpture by James Reineking and the "cloud altar" by Herbert Wurm. The latter was the only sculptor who made his work on site. The remaining three sculptures were set up in consultation with the artists in the urban area of ​​St. Wendel.

Involvement in the road of peace

Main article: Road of Peace

In 2002 the street of the sculptures was connected with the project “ Stones at the border ” near Merzig ; at the interface at Waderner district Gehweiler a plastic of the two initiators was a visible sign of the particular compound Paul Schneider and Leo Kornbrust erected. With the establishment of the Otto-Freundlich-Gesellschaft in 2004 under the direction of Leo Kornbrust, Freundlich’s idea is to be realized. By integrating other sculpture symposia and other sculptures by international artists, a road is to be created between the Norman coast and Moscow. Extensions of the "Strasse des Friedens" in Germany are the sculpture path in Salzgitter-Bad , the steel sculpture symposium in Dillingen / Saar , the marble sculpture "Waves of Life" by the artist Jaroslav Vacek in the European Academy in Otzenhausen and the sculpture symposium of the Foundation for Sculpture in Berlin . Further sections exist in Luxembourg , Belgium , France and Poland .

The artists and their works

Artist title material year
Hiromi Akiyama Untitled red sandstone 1971/72
Framework for a landscape yellow sandstone 1981
Gerd Ammann Untitled yellow sandstone 1981
Ivan Avoscan Réveil - awakening yellow sandstone 1982
Gabi Beju Memory of the Nike of Samothrace yellow sandstone 1972
Franz Bernhard St. Wendeler figure Sheet steel, welded 1999
Rinaldo Bigi Barca della Vita - ship of life yellow sandstone 1983
Daniel Bräg Untitled about 200 stacked spruces 1993, disappeared today
Hans-Jürgen Breuste Overkill 1982 - the forces of stones and the forces that cause stones to burst yellow sandstone, tank tracks, steel plates, cannon barrels 1982
Sylvie Bussières Formes végétaux: 4 arbustes, forme feuille, montagne slate 1993
Elmar Daucher shift red sandstone 1971
Mario Duchesneau Untitled 45 whitebeam bushes 1993
Herbert George Untitled red sandstone 1972
Nikolaus Gerhart Untitled yellow sandstone 1986
Alfred Goerig Wholeness - Postponed yellow sandstone, steel plate 1983
Edgar Gutbub Threesome red sandstone, steel plate 1984
Nausicaa Hacker Untitled Sandstone, concrete 1993
Yoshimi Hashimoto Big Foot yellow sandstone 1977
Bruno K. Hawthorn - stake in the flesh Approx. 250 years old oak, iron plates, sheet metal, concrete base 1981
Kang Jinmo Departure Basalt lava, stainless steel Established in 1994, 1999
Leo Kornbrust Homage to Buñuel Basalt lava 1971
Love throne yellow sandstone 1979
pyramid Basalt lava 1988
Wolfgang Kubach and Anna Kubach-Wilmsen Pillar of earth Krastal marble , smoke crystal 1971
Dieter Kunz triangle Concrete casting 1993
Samuel La Roze Anthill Glass box, iron bars, sugar 1993, disappeared today
Diane Landry St. Wendel and the surrounding area Iron, iron wire, wax, photos, found objects, wool 1993
Patrick Lebret 2 installations "Avec Titre" Material: 1) iron, pond liner, water, goldfish; 2) iron framework, pond liner, motor, water, dye 1993
Alf Lechner Untitled floor object 8 cm thick sheet steel 1985
Ulrike Leitz Information pillar III Sandstone, silicone, film strips, film cans, sand 1993
Christian Mayer (today: Christian Tobin ) Canted yellow sandstone 1981
Takera Narita Horizontal development red sandstone 1971
Mathis Neidhart "Sanctuary" floor design Asphalt, total length about 33 m 1993
Bertrand Ney awakening yellow sandstone 2007
Heinz Oliberius Untitled yellow sandstone 1986
Franz Xaver Ölzant Remembering Hammurabi Basalt lava 1971
Untitled (popularly called "Wolkenstein") yellow sandstone 1979
Karl Prantl Basalt bank Basalt lava 1971
James Reineking Untitled 40 cm thick sheet steel 1996
Laurent Reynes Untitled Wooden stakes, slate 1993, dismantled in 1998
Diane Robertson Untitled Iron, stones, gravel 1993
Gernot hull Commemorating the mine disaster in the Schwerspatgrube iron red sandstone with aluminum 1971
Adolf Ryszka Landmark on the way red sandstone 1971
Michel St-Onge Fos ne l'en sof Wood, stone, car tires 1993
Robert Schad In the wind steel 2008
Rudi Scheuermann Composition with stereometric elements red sandstone 1971
Michael Schoenholtz Great double figure yellow sandstone, concrete base 1984
Martin Schneider Untitled yellow sandstone 1981
Paul Schneider View of the landscape red sandstone 1971
Klaus Schwabe Threatened family yellow sandstone 1987
Alf Schuler Wall piece 2 steel pipes (length 5 m each) and steel cable (30 m) 1985, 1998 detached
Wall piece ("eyelids") over 30 pieces of steel pipe, two steel cables 2007
Shlomo Selinger Requiem for the Jews yellow sandstone 1980
love red granite 1982, set up in 2010
Hans Steinbrenner figure Basalt lava 1975
Valérie Thuillier Chemin amusé, amusing 6 steel rings, each 2 m in diameter. 1993
Hajime Togashi Sunstone Krastal marble, smoke crystal 1972
AD Trantenroth 3 changes in the environment without a title Tombac 1988
Untitled yellow sandstone, tombac, hinges, blue color 1988
Franck Turpin Untitled floor object colored concrete, iron hinges 1993
Han van Wetering fish head red sandstone 1977/78
Dorothee von Windheim Untitled yellow sandstone, iron, glass 1987/88
Gerd Winner Goal for Leo steel 2014
Herbert Wurm Bliesener Stein - cloud altar yellow sandstone 2001

Remarks

  1. Evelyn Schneider: Leo's gate to the street of peace. Online offer of the Saarbrücker Zeitung , April 15, 2014, accessed on April 17, 2014 .

literature

  • Rena Karaoulis: The Street of Sculptures. From the St. Wendel sculpture symposium to the Street of Peace in Europe . Verlag St. Johann, Saarbrücken 2004, ISBN 3-928596-85-3 .
  • Sculptures for Peace , in: Saarbrücker Zeitung (Ausg. St. Wendel) v. April 30/1. May 2009, p. C6
  • Hans Weingartz : Street of Sculptures - From St. Wendel to the Bostalsee , Kid Verlag, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-929386-33-2

Web links

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