Public Art and Urban Memorials in Berlin by Biljana Arandelovic

Public Art and Urban Memorials in Berlin by Biljana Arandelovic

Author:Biljana Arandelovic
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham


Fig. 3.119Galileo by Mark di Suvero at Marlene Dietrich Platz, part of the Daimler Art Collection in Potsdamer Platz. Photographer Biljana Arandelovic

Fig. 3.120Galileo by Mark di Suvero at Marlene Dietrich Platz, part of the Daimler Art Collection in Potsdamer Platz. Photographer Biljana Arandelovic

3.1.7.6 Prince Frederick Arthur of Homburg (General of Cavalry) by Frank Stella

The 1999 sculpture Prince Frederick Arthur of Homburg (General of Cavalry) by famous American artist Frank Stella was located at Marlene Dietrich Platz in the Potsdamer Platz area (temporarily dismantled). Stella’s work has been part of the Daimler Art Collection since 2000. The name for Stella’s artwork originates from Heinrich von Kleist’s play Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg, written around 1810, but not performed until 1821. The abstract work, with dimensions 3.23 × 3.96 × 3.43 m, is a combination of aluminum mass, paint on fiberglass and carbon fiber. The connection between Stella’s work and Kleist’s Prinz von Homburg is by no means illustrative, but rather an abstract poetic visual description.

Stella became famous as a minimalist and abstract painter and printmaker, making works diverse in colors: from monochromatic to rich colorful compositions. Stella’s dynamic sculptural production started in the 1990s after a year-long experiment in the art world stemming from his ambition to transform his paintings into sculptures. And this is exactly what we have in Stella’s public art in Berlin: his sculpture at Marlene Dietrich Platz blends the boundaries between painting and sculpture, making them hardly visible. It seems as if the artist had the intention of placing one of his abstract paintings in three-dimensional form. This sculpture replaced the work Balloon Flower by Jeff Koons, also commissioned by the Daimler Art Collection. Koons’ Balloon Flower was restored and then auctioned at Christie’s (Wiehager 2009) (Fig. 3.121).

Fig. 3.121The Prince Frederick Arthur of Homburg (General of Cavalry) by Frank Stella at Marlene Dietrich Platz, part of the Daimler Art Collection in Potsdamer Platz. Photographer Biljana Arandelovic



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