Große Zwei XXV

The two lovers

Fritz Koenig strove for formal inventions that could exist autonomously in their aesthetics with maximum reduction of the sculptural form and also make it possible to intuitively experience the human figure in the field of tension of its emotions. He has worked intensively on questions relating to innovative ways of representing bodies and their dynamic movement processes. Koenig plays with the physical laws of gravity and explores them to their limits. The figures, reduced to cylindrical bodies and spherical heads, seem to have lost their stability according to all the laws of statics and threaten to topple. Several large sculptures from the "Zwei" series have been installed as "art in architecture" around public buildings.
(Excerpt text Stephanie Gilles, Bavarikon)