Norbert Kricke created many sculptures in public space whose aim was always to provide a counterpoint to the strictly geometrically structured and functionalist architecture of post-war modernity. In Engelskirchen, too, Kricke’s sculpture was installed in the entrance area at the time as the new Aggertal Clinic was built by the renowned architect Harald Deilmann in…

Düsseldorf artist and former academic director Norbert Kricke is known for his non-representational, dynamic works — known as his Spatial Sculptures. Kricke doesn’t understand sculpture as a mass or a body placed in space, but instead breaks his works down to the point of immateriality. His Spatial Sculptures are made out of seemingly weightless curved…

Designed as an avant-garde Gesamtkunstwerk, the Musiktheater im Revier has several works of art that are integral parts of the architecture and date back to the time of its construction. These works include Norbert Kricke’s Pipe Thicket, which can be found along the entrance facade of the Kleines Haus. The elongated building structure is divided…

The Stadttheater in Münster was one of the first new theaters constructed after World War II. This work was created for the new building as one of Norbert Kricke’s earliest Space-Time Sculptures. and can be found along the facade. The artist installed two thin metal tubes across a space where two parts of the building…

Norbert Kricke’s Combined Forces is the first abstract sculpture to be given a permanent public location in the city of Bonn. Atop a tall pedestal in front of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, interlocking bundles of steel rods reach further and further upwards into the space. It’s as if gravity were suspended by the forces of the…

Norbert Kricke introduced the line as a design element in the abstract sculpture of the post war period. While his Spatial Sculptures feature linear metal wires or tubes that dynamically pass through space, this work divides the surface of the concrete wall along the Autobahn bridge: the two crossing, slightly curved metal tubes seem to…

Because of its stone pedestal, this sculpture is reminiscent of a traditional statue; however, it is contrasted by the artist’s abstract method of expression, which has been popular in Informal Art since the 1950s. Norbert Kricke’s work features bundled groups of gestural that project into space in different directions. This sculpture is made out of…

Since the 1950s, Norbert Kricke countered constructivist sculpture with a dynamic linear approach that was closely related to the informalist painting of his time. He uses flexible metal rods and wires to form abstract works, which he calls spatial sculptures, as they seem to dynamically pass through space and set it in motion. The Large…