Heinrich Zille
Heinrich Zille stands in Köllnischer Park, Berlin, as a dark-patinated bronze sculpture over two metres tall. Heinrich Drake created the work in 1958 to mark the centenary of Zille’s birth.
A pencil rests in Zille’s right hand while glasses frame his face and a cigarette stub sits between his lips. A simply dressed young man peers over his shoulder, turning the everyday act of sketching into a small scene between artist and observer. The rectangular limestone base supports a figure dressed in plain bourgeois clothing.
The sculpture first appeared at the 1965 exhibition Berlin – heute, then travelled to the Plastik im Freien exhibition in Potsdam. It found its permanent place in the park in 1967, where the curious onlooker still fixes the scene around Zille’s raised pencil.
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