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After four years of planning and manufacturing, the finished sculpture was dismantled again and transported to the port of Bremen with low loaders and trucks. The bronze elements of the sphere and the base were put together again on site so that Koenig's sculpture as a whole could set off by sea across the Atlantic to New York in a specially ...
Fritz Koenig (20 June 1924 – 22 February 2017) was a German sculptor, considered one of the most important international German sculptors of the 20th century. [1]Koenig's main work and most famous work is The Sphere.
The Sphere, September 2018. The Sphere, a large cast bronze sculpture by German artist Fritz Koenig, had stood in Austin J. Tobin Plaza between the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan. Recovered from the rubble after the September 11 attacks in 2001, whole but visibly damaged, The Sphere was re-erected in Battery Park, near the Hope Garden. [13]
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 ...
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Benjamin “Bambi” Williams, 41, was arrested Saturday, Nov. 30, and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the 2021 death of Joana Peca, 27, St. Petersburg police announced on ...
Cementland, St. Louis, outdoor sculpture park, future uncertain since death of creator in 2011; Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, St. Louis, closed in 2008 [3] International Bowling Museum, St. Louis, moved to Arlington, Texas in 2010; National Video Game and Coin-Op Museum, St. Louis, closed in 1999 [4] St. Louis Museum