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Koenig's collection focused on a world-renowned collection of African works of art. Koenig was a board member of the German Association of Artists from 1961 to 1972. Fritz Koenig was also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The creation of the originally titled Große Kugelkaryatide N.Y./ Great Caryatid Sphere N.Y. (catalogue raisonné Sk 416) dates to the 1960s and early 1970s. At that time Fritz Koenig was established as an artist in the United States.
The work, weighing more than 20 tons, was the only remaining work of art to be recovered largely intact from the ruins of the collapsed Twin Towers. After being dismantled and stored near a hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the sculpture was the subject of the 2001 documentary Koenig's Sphere. Since then, the bronze sphere has ...
The Sphere, the monumental and world's largest cast bronze sculpture of modern times created by German artist Fritz Koenig stood between the twin towers on the Austin J. Tobin Plaza of the World Trade Center in New York City from 1971 until the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The artefact, weighing more than 20 tons, was the only ...
König was the son of a Viennese postman. He spent two years at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule, then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna between 1878 and 1883 under Christian Griepenkerl, August Eisenmenger and Carl von Blaas before going to study at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and then visiting Italy, Germany, Spain and France.
Fritz Klimsch; Max Klinger; Imi Knoebel; Fritz Koelle; Fritz Koenig; Georg Kolbe; Käthe Kollwitz; Karsten Konrad; Harry Kramer (German artist) Gerda Kratz; August Kraus; Magdalene Kreßner; Norbert Kricke; Emil Krieger; Lubo Kristek; Pit Kroke; Max Kruse (sculptor) Erich Kuhn; Fritz Kühn; Wilhelm Kunst (sculptor) Ludwig Kunstmann; Richard Kuöhl
On Friday in Manhattan, the estate of Holocaust victim Fritz Grünbaum accepted "Portrait of a Man,” 2 artworks returned to heirs of Holocaust victim. Another is tied up in court
Together, these pieces are recognized as a single work by the artist, "Hermes and Dyonisos: Mounument to Analysis." [13] Encircled by a spiral stairway between the LeMeridien San Francisco and the Old Federal Reserve Bank Building on Commercial Street is a bronze sphere with black etchings, an untitled work by German artist Fritz Koenig.