Echo / Echo, Kunst in Kirchen Raum geben, Hannover, Germany 1993
Echo / Echo is a site specific art work in memory of the synagogue which was built next to the Ev.- Luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis, Hannover.
The main synagogue of Hannover was destroyed during the Kristallnacht pogrom, 10.11.1938. The main synagogue of Hannover, architect: the German-Jewish Edwin Oppler (1831-80), inaugurated 1870.
Echo / Echo I
In the clock tower of the Ev.- Luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis Hannover. Bronze, (in bronze casted, 36 ShOFaROT, ram's horn used for Jewish religious purposes), Height 600 cm
Please note: Echo / Echo I in the clock tower, disappeared without a trace, it has yet to be found.
Echo / Echo II,
(In the proximity of the Church) 4 x steel plates (The form is based on the ground plan of a synagogue), Bronze, Height 75 cm.
This art work is located outside the Church, in front of the Church Office, Landeskirchenamt Hannover.
Please note: The administrative center of the Luth. Church of Hanover has been built upon the area of the destroyed Synagogue in 1954. At a certain time it has been decided to change the location of Echo / Echo II, to the back side of the Church. A strange decision by the city. http://www.josephsemah.nl/…/d…/files/books/Echo%20EchoKL.pdf
The main synagogue of Hannover
the Ev.- Luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche
St. Johannis Hannover.
Echo / Echo is a site specific art work in memory of the synagogue which was built next to the Ev.- Luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis, Hannover.
The main synagogue of Hannover was destroyed during the Kristallnacht pogrom, 10.11.1938. The main synagogue of Hannover, architect: the German-Jewish Edwin Oppler (1831-80), inaugurated 1870.
Echo / Echo I
In the clock tower of the Ev.- Luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis Hannover. Bronze, (in bronze casted, 36 ShOFaROT, ram's horn used for Jewish religious purposes), Height 600 cm
Please note: Echo / Echo I in the clock tower, disappeared without a trace, it has yet to be found.
Echo / Echo II,
(In the proximity of the Church) 4 x steel plates (The form is based on the ground plan of a synagogue), Bronze, Height 75 cm.
This art work is located outside the Church, in front of the Church Office, Landeskirchenamt Hannover.
Please note: The administrative center of the Luth. Church of Hanover has been built upon the area of the destroyed Synagogue in 1954. At a certain time it has been decided to change the location of Echo / Echo II, to the back side of the Church. A strange decision by the city. http://www.josephsemah.nl/…/d…/files/books/Echo%20EchoKL.pdf
