Statues - Hither & Thither

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Herten
(Stadt Herten)
Kr. Recklinghausen
Nordrhein-Westfalen

Ewaldstraße
(Place d'Arras)

Lesender

Reading Man

Heinrich Brockmeier
1984

Description

With his hat off and his legs casually crossed, a man sits on the edge of a fountain that was completed in 1983 on the occasion of Herten's partnership with the French city of Arras. The reaing man supports his head and is absorbed in a book.

Sculptor

Heinrich Brockmeier (Berlin 1938), German sculptor of Recklinghausen, married with Uschi Klaas (Website).

Sources & Information

Stadt Herten, Kunstwerken im öffentlichen Raum, Sept. 2012 (PDF online).
Wikipedia, Liste von Kunstwerken im öffentlichen Raum in Herten.

Locatie (N 51°35'31" - E 7°8'26") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw1020; Photograph: 1 August 2022
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