Three old, multi-stemmed beech trees form the frame around Herman Prigann's work, A Hill of Contemplation. The work is located on a hilltop, but is not only a hill for reflection, but also includes a bowl-shaped depression lined with stones (or foliage) that is ideal for meditation.
With the view to the sky, to spring's delicate light green foliage, summer's darker intense and dense green foliage, to autumn's flaming colors in red and yellow colors - or to the graphically drawn bare branches in winter, Prigann's bowl feels like a place where you as a person itself is in a constructive dialogue with nature.
Artist: Herman Prigann
Year: 1995
Herman Prigann, born 1942 in Recklinghausen, Germany, died 2008 in Mallorca, Spain. Studied painting and urban planning in Hamburg and has taught at the Bauhaus in Dessau. He lived and worked until his death in Mallorca. In the beginning, his exhibitions were combined with happenings, later it became the fire. He carried out his masterpiece in 1992 at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover: With a wide and high rampart of tree trunks and earth, 50 meters in diameter and with entrances in the four corners of the world, he created the work "Ring der Erinnerung", which across the old border connects East - and West Germany.