Goddess of Victory or angel?
She is winged, the Victoria, standing tall on the top of the Ionic column of the war memorial in Chemnitz.
She is winged, the Victoria, standing tall on the top of the Ionic column of the war memorial in Chemnitz.
The Chemnitz resurrection angel shows no dramatic gesture, nor one of loud praise or silent prayer. He stands calmly on his pedestal, smiles reservedly and holds the empty shroud.
Three angels adorn the Judith Lucretia portal at the Seigerturm – but what story is being told? What do you think? Write us what you see!
An angel now waits at the end of the street during Advent and Christmas. Not only does he or she give light. The angel carries hope into a world that needs hope in times like ours.
Eigensinn is usually described in dictionaries as a negative quality. Its synonyms include: Pride, naughtiness, insolence, lack of understanding, impatience …
As part of our photo challenge “Messages of Angels”, we at Fraktalwerk Projektraum are also exploring Chemnitz and its angels, also from Berlin. Today a work in public space by Silke Rehberg, location: Chemnitz, Bahnhofstraße.
Is the woman actually “pointing”? Or is it not rather a finger pointing to the dubiousness of pointing gestures? With the naked finger, (…)
The wings of the angels and their arms are the only things that appear of the angels here.
Nothing moves here, neither a wingtip sways in the wind, nor a garment despite all its translucent lightness.
Only the context in which they stand identifies them as angels: The first trench angels are men without wings, so human that they are indistinguishable from mortals.