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Art by heavy transport: The park around the Darmstadt Residenzschloss has one more object: the “Great Reclining Legend” by the sculptor Erwin Wortelkamp weighs four and a half tons.
Darmstadt has had one more work of art since Tuesday evening at 10 p.m.: After moving twice, the “Great Liege” – a sculpture by Erwin Wortelkamp – has now found its final exhibition location in the Schlossgraben near Friedensplatz. It took about an hour to transport the four and a half ton object, which a crane hoisted over the federal highway 26 at the castle, which was closed for this purpose.
It can be guessed that the way there was no small matter given the dimensions of the sculpture. The only way to position them was to lower them from the street over the tram network, announced the Technical University (TU) Darmstadt, whose Chancellor Manfred Efinger received the “Great Liege”. The smooth process was also thanks to the transport companies, some of whom drove the work of art to an exhibition location for the third time.
Erwin Wortelkamp’s “Great Reclining Legend” has found her destination in the Schlossgraben in Darmstadt.
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Two years ago, Efinger had a conversation with the artist at an exhibition on the occasion of Erwin Wortelkamp’s 80th birthday at the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz. In 2019, it was decided that the TU would take over the “Great Reclining”, said Efinger’s consultant Sarah Schneider of the Frankfurter Rundschau. For the TU, the acquisition of the work of art is a belated contribution to the section of the moat in the north of the castle. She received support from a donation from Sparkasse Darmstadt in the amount of 20,000 euros.
The publicly accessible moat of the Residenzschloss has been redesigned into a park in recent years. There were already some works of art in the so-called Green Oasis, including some by the Secession Prize winner Carola Keitel. The sculptor and painter Wortelkamp redesigned the 450-year-old village tree where he lived in Hasselbach – a tree trunk ten meters long and 1.60 meters in diameter – into a sculpture for the “Great Liege” 20 years ago.
He took a section three meters long from the six-ton trunk, had it cast in bronze and reintegrated it into the work. In this way he addressed the transience of the material, according to the press release from the Technical University. In his artistic practice, Wortelkamp has been following his assertion for decades: “Sculptures seek and find their place.” His work, along with those of other artists, will enrich the area around the castle moat.
Wortelkamp, born in Hamm in 1938, lives and works in Hasselbach in the Westerwald, where he founded the “Im Tal” initiative on an area of eleven hectares. Here, 50 artists show their site-specific works that enter into a dialogue with nature.
Wortelkamp often works with large tree trunks. This is also the case with his works “The Hollowed Trunk” or the “Large Ajar”. His sculptures have already been seen in the region in Mainz, Mannheim and Heidelberg.
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