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Bernd Altenstein
Herbert Schmäke Kunstgießerei (Düsseldorf)
1983

Beschreibung / Description

Bronze sculpture showing several very different characters. Some are modeled, some shown only schematically. They all share a great dynamic in expression or movement. It shows anxious and determined, combative and desperate people. Security, fear, courage and misery are common here.

Beschriftung(en) / Inscription(s)

Den Oldenburger Bürgern
gestiftet aus Anlaß des
einhundertjährigen
jubiläums
der Bremer Landesbank
Kreditanstalt Oldenburg
am 1. November 1983

Signiert / Signature

Altenstein 1983
guss h. schmäke d.dorf

Künstler*in / Artist

Bernd Altenstein (Schloßberg, Ostpreußen, 1943), Deutscher Bildhauer
German sculptor (Wikipedia).

Quellen & Informationen / Sources & Information

Stadt Oldenburg, InternetStadtplan (Kunst im öffentl. Raum).
Übermorgenstadt Oldenburg, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum.
Stadt Oldenburg, Kunst in Oldenburg.

Stichworte / Tags

Town: Oldenburg
Kreis: Stadt Oldenburg
Land: Niedersachsen
Country: Germany
Altenstein, Bernd
Figures (group)
Schmäke Kunstgießerei (Düsseldorf), Herbert

Lage / Location (N 53°8'20" - E 8°12'52") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: dens272; Photograph: 8 March 2015
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