Fritz Koenig, born June 20, 1924, in Würzburg, Germany, is a sculptor best known outside his native country for "The Sphere," which once stood in the plaza between the two World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan but which now stands, its damage deliberately left unrepaired, in Battery Park as a memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. His long and distinguished career has included other works, including other memorials. June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Würzburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Fritz Koenigs The Sphere at its current location in Battery Park, showing damage from 9/11 The Sphere is a large metallic sculpture by German sculptor Fritz Koenig that once stood in the middle of Austin Tobin Plaza between the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan. ... The twin towers, photographed from the west The World Trade Center in New York City was a complex of seven buildings around a central plaza, near the south end of Manhattan in the downtown financial district. ... Woolworth Building, looking south along Broadway The Lower Manhattan skyline as viewed from Hoboken, New Jersey. ... The promenade of Battery Park City is an extension of Battery Park. ... A memorial is an object served as a memory of something, usually a person (who has died) or an event. ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...

Biography

Born in Würzburg, his family moved to the Bavarian community of Landshut when he was six. In the years after World War II he studied art at the Kunstakademie München (Munich School of Art), graduating in 1952. Nine years later he moved to Ganslberg, a farming community outside Landshut where he lives and works on a horse farm. Since 1964 he has been a professor of art at the Technische Hochshule München. With an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in Indonesia Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The Horse (Equus caballus) is a sizeable ungulate mammal, one of the seven modern species of the genus Equus. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ...

Work

Koenig's work has largely consisted of figures or shapes assembled from simple geometric forms cast in metal. When he has represented human forms, these have been heavily stylized, with heads made of spheres and bodies and limbs of cylinders. His Holocaust memorial design exemplifies this, adding bones poured on a mound. Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms ions (cations) and has metallic bonds, and metals are sometimes described as a lattice of positive ions (cations) in a cloud of electrons. ... A sphere is, roughly speaking, a ball-shaped object. ... The word cylinder has several meanings. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... Grays illustration of a human femur, a typically recognized bone. ...

Major works

• "The Sphere", 1967-71
• German memorial at Mauthausen concentration camp, 1983
• Memorial to victims of the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.
• Permanent exhibits at the Hofberg Sculpture Museum in Landshut.

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External links

• Landshut Sculpture Museum (German)
• Hours of the Landshut Sculpture Museum (German)