Auferstehender und Fallender
Auferstehender und Fallender stands on Kiliansplatz in Würzburg, a freestanding steel sculpture rising about four and a half metres. Kiliansplatz once served as a cemetery before becoming a public square. From the square, you see the Romanesque Kiliansdom and Neumünster alongside contemporary works.
Michael Morgner created the sculpture in 2003 from steel sheets, continuing his work with stylised human figures. Both forms came from one steel plate. They still fail to match exactly, leaving form and absence visibly unsettled. That deliberate mismatch places vulnerability, hope, suffering, and human dignity inside an industrial material. Weather will alter the steel surface, making change and impermanence part of the work.
The industrial surface contrasts with Würzburg’s Romanesque surroundings and connects the present with older layers of the city. Steel therefore carries both endurance and transformation. Look closely at the uneven relationship between the rising and falling forms.
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