Raumplastik (“Die Genesende”) / Spatial Sculpture (“Convalescent Woman”)

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 1961. It was made shortly after his best-known work, the “Große Mannesmann” in Düsseldorf, and shows the abstract formal language of fine, line-like metal struts developed by the artist. Seven clusters of these bundled lines extending on all sides into space are staggered on top of each other and thus seem to be in a dynamic upward movement. The sculpture thus primarily expresses a feeling of freedom meant to be transmitted to the beholder.