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Landkreis Peine
Niedersachsen

Am Silberkamp 30
(Gymnasium am Silberkamp)

Naturwissenschaften ('Die Kralle')

Natural sciences ('The claw')

Maximilian Stark
1979

Peine / Naturwissenschaften ('Die Kralle')

Description

Boulder, over which a claw-like structure curves. The boulder symbolises nature and represents the planet Earth. The claw symbolises the natural sciences that encompass the entire world and determine our lives.

Sculptor

Maximilian Stark (Görkau [now: Jirkov] 1922 - Leiferde bei Gifhorn 1998), German sculptor from Chemnitz (until 1958) and Wolfsburg

Sources & Information

Stadt Peine, Denkmäler und Skulpturen in Peine.
Michael Utecht, Denkmäler und Skulpturen in Peine (Peine: StadtMarketing, 2019), (PDF online).

Locatie (N 52°19'22" - E 10°14'22") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: dens658; Photograph: 30 July 2024
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