“Tor” by Erwin Heerich, the formative artist of Museum Insel Hombroich, found its place in monumental size at the entrance of Düsseldorf Südpark on the occasion of the Federal Garden Show, though it is based on a smaller cardboard sculpture by the artist from the 1960s. To Heerich, cardboard sculptures, as models and even autonomous…

Precise design and an architectural approach are fundamental to the sculptures of Erwin Heerich, who created independent cardboard sculptures and also constructed the models of his buildings and free artworks in cardboard. The “Lichtdurchlässige Bündelsäule” in front of the headquarters of the Federal Office of Administration in Cologne is a precisely calculated tower on a…

Erwin Heerich lived and worked in Meerbusch for roughly 50 years until his death. In addition to his autonomous sculptures, he was also particularly known for the structures on the Museumsinsel Hombroich near Neuss, which can be categorized in the space between architecture and sculpture. His architectural and sculptural concepts both feature basic geometric forms…

Erwin Heerich’s work often dealt with developing one form out of another, the relationship between individual forms, as well as the relationship of the individual to the whole. This sculpture in front of the Amtsgericht Solingen also features strict geometry, and is made up of three essential elements: a shallow cylinder, a wedge, and a…

A central theme in sculptor Erwin Heerich’s work is the development of geometric forms. This holds true for his autonomous sculptures, as well as applied works of art, such as benches, birdbaths, or – as is the case here – fountains. Accordingly, the main elements of this fountain include a circular basin and square base…

Having designed numerous buildings there, artist Erwin Heerich’s name is closely associated with Museumsinsel Hombroich, which is located near Grevenbroich. The structures Heerich created for the island can be understood as architectural sculptures. This sculpture in Grevenbroich also draws from architecture, as it depicts a rectangular doorway within a round archway. The artist reduced this…

Josef Albers’s Homage to the Square series of paintings was used as the basis for the design of the Museum Quadrat in Bottrop – museum “square” in English. Located in the museum park, Erwin Heerich’s sculpture Homage to Josef Albers simultaneously makes reference to the Bauhaus artist, the location, and the perfect geometric shape. The…

This work is a relief depicting the formation process of successive enlargements of a curve at the corners of a 120 x 120-centimeter square field. This sculptural process, which changes only the perimeter, is contrasted by the frontal attack of a spherical hollowed out section on the surface. Erwin Heerich also invented a font made…

This 4.8-meter-tall sculpture is made up of four precisely sawed stone blocks with a side length of 120-centimeters. It was important to Heerich that his sculpture be hewed out of a type of stone that was connected to the local landscape, which is why he used Hohenfels basalt lava from the Eifel. These basalt blocks…