Rondo is located between the Stadthalle and the Von der Heydt Museum on Johannisberg. Alike the musical refrain in a rondo, the sculpture’s curved segments repeat in a lively rhythm. The work is made from a large corten steel ring that was divided into two parts. Each of the two segments is creased once, forming…

In 1971, the city of Monschau put on a modern sculpture exhibition, which featured the work of numerous artists who later became famous. Curated by Klaus Honnef, the show added unusually modern accents to the cityscape, which was otherwise characterized by picturesque half-timbered houses and cobbled streets. This triggered controversial reactions among the population at…

Alf Lechner’s works stand for the greatest possible simplicity and clarity. Here are four cubes, the edges of which were forged out of square steel rods. Two adjacent cubes form a base for the other two cubes. While one of the top cubes rests in line with the base, the other is tilted diagonally and…

Alf Lechner’s sculptures are impressive in their simplicity. Often, the artist works with basic geometric shapes– circles, squares, cubes, and cuboids — and makes it possible to experience them in surprising new ways. He clearly explains his approach: “I want to make systematically ordered thinking perceivable to the senses though planned deconstruction, distortion, and reorganization.”…