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Sculpture-Inauguration
\nAndreas Felgers Praise of God<\/em>, 2025<\/h4>\n
Sculpture park
\nRehabilitation Hospital Bad Sebastiansweiler<\/h5>\n

A recent ceremony attended by the 90-year-old artist marked the inauguration of a new three-part sculpture in Bad Sebastiansweiler. Ernst Wilhelm Gohl, who grew up in M\u00f6ssingen (and Esslingen-Sulzgries) and has been Regional Bishop of the Protestant Church in W\u00fcrttemberg since 2022, gave the welcoming address under a bright blue sky.<\/p>\n

The colour of the sky provided the ideal backdrop for the triad of colours in the steel steles, which, highly abstracted, resemble human figures with raised arms. This compositional form was last seen in Andreas Felger’s paintings, where it referred to the human body and was open to interpretation as to whether the arms were to be read as a gestural cry for help or as a kind of worship. In the sculpture group entitled Praise of God, however, this form appears to have taken a clearly positive turn. The raised \u201carms\u201d allow the steles, which are already larger than life, to reach a little further upwards, thus mediating between the earthly and heavenly worlds. Even with its extreme formal reduction, the work functions as a sign of man’s relationship to a dimension that will always remain unattainable.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, 1. Dezember 2025<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Andreas Felger, Sculpture park Bad Sebastiansweiler, 29.11.2025<\/div>
Praise of God, 2025, Three steel steles \u00a9 AFKS<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Andreas Felger, untitled, 2024<\/div>
Oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm \u00a9 AFKS<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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