Großes Rufzeichen
Großes Rufzeichen is a sculpture by Fritz Koenig in Hanover, standing directly before the VGH insurance building. Simple geometric forms give the work a powerful presence beside a busy street.
The sculpture creates a pause in an urban setting shaped by institutional buildings, imposing façades and anonymous office windows. Rather than illustrating a specific subject, it offers a general warning to the surrounding city space, linking its mass more closely to Hanover than to the building behind it. Koenig, born in Würzburg in 1924, often used geometric shapes even when exploring human forms.
A pavement would normally invite pedestrians forward, but this sculpture borders an urban no-man’s-land instead. In the VGH courtyard, a light installation by Joseph Kosuth carries a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quotation connected with another installation on Hohes Ufer.
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