Fritz Koenig

Fritz Koenig ( born June 20, 1924 in Würzburg ) is a German sculptor.

Life and work

Koenig was born in 1924 in Würzburg, 1930, he moved to Landshut. From 1946 to 1952 he studied at the Munich Academy of Art sculpture by Anton Hiller. In 1959 he participated in the documenta II in Kassel, 1964 at the documenta III. In 1964 he was appointed professor of sculpture at the Technical University of Munich, where he worked on the design of the architect until 1992. He lives and works since 1961 on an Arabian horse stud in Ganslberg near Landshut.

Some of his sculptures are made up of simple geometric figures. Fascinating but also depressing, its human representations. The head is a simple steel ball, the torso is formed by a small cylindrical rods. His design for the Berlin Holocaust memorial shows this stylized heads and bones piled up to a wall.

In the headlines Fritz Koenig came after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 for the 1967-1971 he created large Kugelkaryatide. The golden ball with the work called The Sphere survived serious damage to the collapse of the towers of the World Trade Center. Inside the torn ball of the fallen towers in the aircraft were found, among other wreckage. On 11 March 2002, the sculpture was erected as a temporary memorial in New York's Battery Park.

Significant works

Awards

Photos

Large two V, 1973, in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich

Large two VI (1973 /82). Bronze. Hospital Bogenhausen

Fritz Koenig: Large Biga, 2000, Bronze, Exterior Alte Pinakothek, Munich

" Apocalyptic Woman " on the facade of the church of Maria Regina Martyrum (Berlin)