Heinz Günter Prager, who lives in Cologne and teaches in Braunschweig, is an advocate for ground sculptures. Placed directly on the ground without a plinth or pedestal, his sculptures create no distance to the viewer who can directly relate to them. This also applies to “Doppelachse,” a two-part sculpture, each consisting of two discs connected…

The basic geometric shapes of circle, square and cross form the starting point of many of Heinz-Günter Prager’s sculptures, executed in solid Corten steel. He is concerned with the proportions within his works, which he puts in relation to human beings: “The human being and the sculpture are stable factors. Their distance to each other…

The Museum Ostwall in the Dortmunder U has expanded into the public space surrounding it and integrated representative sculptural works from the 1970s and 1980s into the park, which are the last remnants commemorating the former location of the Museum on Ostwall. These include Heinz Günther Prager’s “Große Zylinderskulptur II,” which has a counter piece…

Visitors come into very direct contact with this memorial in front of Villa Zanders as it literally lies across their path. With no elevating pedestal, a steel cross is positioned directly on the paving stones of the path, covered by a big steel block that leaves only the ends of its arms visible. Both elements…

Heinz-Günter Prager’s minimalist work seeks to create a bridge between the past and the present in the viewer’s imagination. The sculpture is made up of two steel hemispheres: one is set high in the exterior castle wall, while the other rests on a rectangular steel plate on the grass a short distance away. Only an…

Heinz-Günter Prager’s sculpture in front of the Bonn Kunstmuseum is named Gaia. In Greek mythology, Gaia represents the earth and the first goddess to emerge from the chaos. Her name is of Indo-European origin and one possible meaning is procreator. She was seen as a mother – creating and nurturing life, as well as a…

Hans Günter Prager’s work makes reference to the Amtsgericht building behind it. As an artist who is typically preoccupied with basic geometric forms, Prager’s work reinterprets the shapes and proportions of the building’s triangular gable and round arched window. Three upright steel plates form an open triangle; a fourth circular plate leans from the ground…

Heinz-Günter Prager’s sculpture consists of a steel cylinder with one rectangular plate resting on top of it, while a similar plate cuts almost halfway through its diameter. The two plates seem to fix the cylinder in its location, with one as a weight and the other as an incision. In his sculptures, which are based…

This sculpture is includes seven circular elements made of heavy rusted steel in different sizes. It appears as if they were scattered around the square in front of the Herne train station like game pieces. Six of the disks stand upright, while the last one is lying on its side. One wonders whether it fell…