Koenig's Sphere

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• English and German versions
• Never before seen photos of Ground Zero

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The amazing story of a sculpture that became a monument.The only work of art in or around the World Trade Center that miraculously survived the inferno of September 11, 2001, is the monumental fountain sculpture "The Sphere". Created and built by the German sculptor Fritz Koenig. It had been in the center of the World Trade Center Plaza for three decades. Millions of people had met in it's shadow, towering over a cool table of water.Koenig, born in 1924 in Würzburg, Germany, is one of the most important and prominent German sculptors after world war II. His work was shown in exhibitions all over the world. He calls "The Sphere" his biggest child. It is 25 feet high, cast in 52 bronze segments, put together in Bremen, and shipped as a whole to Lower Manhattan. It was commissioned by the Port Authority in the late sixties. Originally, Henry Moore was supposed to create the fountain. But the twin towers' architect Minoru Yamasaki, who had seen Koenig's work at the Staempfli Gallery in Manhattan, decided for the German sculptor. "I was in my mid forties at that time" says Koenig , "not too young and not too old to tackle the enormous endeavor."---------------I still hear his voice in my ear: "Sie schaut raus! (It's peaking out!)." It was a few days after 9/11. My friend, the then 77 year old sculptor Fritz Koenig, is calling from Germany. "It's peaking out of the rubble. It's not destroyed. I saw it on TV. It's a miracle.""Let's meet there," I said, "come to New York. You need to see it with your own eyes." "No, yes, maybe, even if it's only a last goodbye, he said." We met in New York. I had my camera with me.P.A.

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