 | Trail of modern sculpturesFrom Botero to Lüpertz The International Artists' House Villa Concordia has been in Bamberg since 1997. Just one year later, the first exhibition took place as part of the "Modern Sculptures in Bamberg" series. This cycle started with works by Columbian sculptor Fernando Botero, and was followed by exhibitions of further well-known artists like Lüpertz, Wortelkamp or Avramidis. Of each exhibition Bamberg managed to buy one of the sculptures in the aftermath, thus creating the core of the trail of modern sculptures. |
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Anchor figure 2002
The sculpture by Swiss artist Bernhard Luginbühl deals with civilisation and the environment and is made of disused objects. The sculpture was bought after an exhibition in 2004 with the ...
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“Apoll” by Markus Lüpertz
The disputed German artist Markus Lüpertz often alludes to the great archaic motives of the classic era. Apoll is one of them and shows the Roman god in a very different light. Its final ...
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Centurione I
Bronze statue by Polish born sculptor Igor Mitoraj who works in Paris and Pietrasanta (Italy). The artist's heads, torsos and figures are reminiscent of the classical beauty of antiquity, but ...
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Large sculpture 1982
Abstract bronze sculpture by the Greek-born artist Joannis Avramidis who today lives in Vienna. Bought by the town in 1999.
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Lady with fruit
Bronze sculpture created by the Columbian artist Fernando Botero. In 1998, it was bought by the town of Bamberg and was the first statue on the sculpture trail.
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“Tood- Taboo - Trance” by Mischa Kuball
This light installation by the German artist Mischa Kuball (born 1959) was a present for the Museum of the Diocese. Three colours – red, green and blue – dominate the work of art, the visible ...
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Pillar by Micha Ullmann
Kaiser Heinrich II., who founded Bamberg in the year 1007, firmly believed, that his Rome of the North, his capital to be, marked the centre of his empire, the hub of the world. Up until the 18th ...
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“Stimmgabel” (tuning fork) by Erwin Wortelkamp
Erwin Wortelkamp originally created an untitled sculpture in Bamberg in 2001 made from wood. A year later, this 5 metres high and 1.7 tons heavy bronze sculpture took up its final position in ...
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Wandlung (transubstantiation) by Kazuo Katase
This work of art was introduced and erected on the occasion of the millennium celebration of the Bishopric of Bamberg in the year 2007. It was a project of the Villa Concordia, the international ...
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