Karyatide
Karyatide stands in Frankfurt’s Bockenheimer Anlage, where bronze meets the green belt of the Wallanlagen. Beside it, a pond preserves part of the city’s old moat.
Gerson Fehrenbach created the sculpture in 1964 and reimagined the ancient Greek caryatid as informal art. Its female form merges with abstract, organic shapes, giving the bronze a non-representational physicality. The city of Frankfurt holds the work within its public art collection, placing sculpture among trees, paths, and water.
The pond offers the clearest detail: a remnant of the old moat beside a figure shaped by both human form and abstraction.
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