Wachsende Kraft / Growing Force

This tall abstract bronze sculpture is reminiscent of a plant whose trunk is rooted in the ground and whose three branches or buds grow out of a joint basis and slowly raise their heads towards the light like seedlings. It is almost like a monument to the single-minded force of growth, while the abstract formal language enhances its expressiveness and raises it to a universal allegorical or symbolic level. The artist, who came from Hamburg to Hilden in the early 1950s, left a lasting mark on his new home with his teaching activities, but also with several works in public space, for example the “Pinguinbrunnen” (Penguin Fountain) from 1955.