Public art always should be celebrated, and this little tribute to one of Bonn's favorite sons qualifies.
August Mache was an expressionist painter who spent a great deal of his life in Bonn. There is a museum in the city that contains some of his work. Mache is said to have liked his characters to be rather neutral, and that certainly qualifies in this tribute by Stephan Balkenhol. Here our anonymous man looks to the sky, represented by the roof, and moving out attention upward.
Well, at least that's the goal. Some might say it's a nice bit of color in some open area near the University of Bonn. Which it is, of course.
Balkenhol unveiled this piece of work in 2018 as part of the 4th Bonn Art Project. It's the only such tribute to Mache's work. It's also good to salute a Native Son.
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