[TheForge] Fwd: Fritz Kühn's legacy about to be impounded

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Subject: Fwd: Fritz Kühn's legacy about to be impounded

This isn't something i know much about, but thought you might relate to...pf

Begin forwarded message:

From: Helmut Hillenkamp 

Subject: Re: Fritz Kühn's legacy about to be impounded

Below is the translation of the petition for saving the Kühn family from being evicted from their shop and exhibition place with the request to sign it and pas it along. The petition itself is at

http://chn.ge/1dbtFhA 

At the bottom of the page is an adjustment for language for the actual form.

Fritz' and Achim's work is on line under www.metalart.de


Thank you for your consideration, Helmut Hillenkamp



To: Klaus Wowereit and the Cultural Commission of the Berlin House of Representatives

Prevention of eviction in order to safeguard the cultural heritage of the metal artist Fritz Kühn

petition by
Thomas Seidel
Berlin, Germany

The property in Berlin - Bohnsdorf (Richterstraße 6, 12524 Berlin)  which contains the artistic legacy of metal sculptor , artist blacksmith and photographer Fritz Kühn - in the care of the Fritz Kühn society - is threatened with eviction on February 17.  Among other things Fritz Kühn (1910 - 1967) designed the fountain on the Strausberger Platz (" Floating Ring " ), the facade of the Komische Oper in Berlin, the sculpture " Cosmic circles" in Hannover, the " Floating Crystal " in Dusseldorf and contributed to the memorials of the former concentration camps Buchenwald and Dachau. In 1969 the Louvre presented a retrospective for him. Today his works are threatened by an early end in the scrap press .

On January 16, 2014 the Berlin House of Representatives deferred an urgent request for " securing the artistic estate of Fritz Kühn " for consideration to its Cultural Commission .  There however, the responsible parties on January 20 refused even its discussion .

Here it is necessary to refer to Article 35 of the Unification Treaty, according to which the cultural substance inherited from the former GDR is protected from taking damage . Because of the ignorant behavior of the cultural administrators of Berlin, a further treatment of this issue on the level of the federal government is being impeded .

We call on Klaus Wowereit to do everything in his power to avert the imminent destruction ! The point is to prevent eviction and then to open a museum venue for the presentation of the artistic legacy of this internationally renowned Berlin artist (creating a sculpture park , see article in the Berliner Zeitung : What to do with art? ) .