Bodenskulptur und Tympanontexte für St. Peter / Ground Sculpture and Tympanum Text for St. Peter

Sculptor Ulrich Rückriem is famous for his massive granite sculptures which take the stone seriously, bring it out as a natural material, and redefine their surrounding space by their force. Which makes the work created by the artist for the Recklinghausen Provost Church St. Peter all the more astonishing: In 2002, he designed the entrance portals of the west tower and to the north with inscriptions on the tympanum and a ground sculpture in front of the entrance in the tower.
Each of the two simple sandstone tympana is inscribed with a single biblical quotation referring to the apostle Peter that leaves the major part of their surface empty. The ground sculpture is located at some distance to the portal, flush with the paving of the forecourt. A granite slab the size of the portal was embedded in the ground here. As is characteristic of Rückriem’s sculptures, the slab was divided into smaller segments but re-assembled in its original form, leaving the drill holes and lines between the individual segments visible. This divides the great slab into four rows. The upper quarter has been left whole, while the three lower rows, each divided into four sections, yield twelve sections, corresponding to the number of apostles.


Ulrich Rückriem

1938
geboren in Düsseldorf; lebt und arbeitet in Köln.
1957–1959
Steinmetzlehre in Düren.
1960–1961
Geselle an der Kölner Dombauhütte.
seit 1968
Steinskulpturen.
1969
arbeitete Ulrich Rückriem in einem gemeinsamen Atelier mit Blinky Palermo in Mönchengladbach.
1963–1971
Arbeit im Schloss Nörvenich, in Clonegal, County Carlow, Irland, und in der Normandie.
1972
Teilnahme an der Documenta 5 in Kassel.
1974
Professur an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg.
1978
Teilnahme an der Biennale in Venedig.
1982
Teilnahme an der Documenta 7.
1984
Professur an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
1987
Teilnahme an der Documenta 8.
1988
Professur an der Städelschule, Frankfurt.
1992
Teilnahme an der Documenta 9.
1994
Eröffnung der „Skulpturen-Hallen Ulrich Rückriem“ in Rommerskirchen-Sinsteden.
1998
Piepenbrock-Preis für Skulptur in Berlin.

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Location
Recklinghausen
Churchyard St. Peter, 45657 Recklinghausen
Artist
Ulrich Rückriem
Year
2002
Size
not specified
Material
granite
Object types
Architectural sculpture, Architektonische Skulptur, Bodenskulptur, Ground sculpture