Delfoss

A marble sculpture was unveiled on Am Haspel square in 1966. The artist, Karl Hartung, had previously exhibited the work at Documenta in Kassel in 1963. Based on a model by the artist, the monumental eight-ton sculpture was carved out of a monolithic block of marble. It rests on a pedestal that is 1.2 meters long on each side and previously stood in a reflecting pool formed out of two intersecting rectangles. As part of the 2006 Regionale, the water basins were removed because the space between the professional school, city archive, and university was being remodeled. In the process, the sculpture also saw a shift in meaning: the work now seems to first evoke the image of an abstract bundle of emerging forces, although it was named after an Icelandic waterfall and its organic form resembles water or ice.