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The artist Hubert Lang also placed a dove of peace on the Kaiserstuhl.
In addition to Schongau, others could follow in the twin cities.
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A peace dove by the artist Hubert Lang is to be erected in Schongau on May 8th, the day on which the Second World War ended.
The bronze sculpture will be placed in the monastery garden opposite the war memorial.
The peace symbol could also be installed in Schongau's partner cities.
Schongau
- The project was recently presented to a city council in brief words: the artist Hubert Lang, who was born in Oberammergau, had offered the city of Schongau a bronze sculpture in the form of a dove of peace with an olive branch.
According to his wishes, the work of art should be installed in the monastery garden of the Heiliggeist Hospital.
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Lang finds the date May 8th appropriate for the unveiling, the day on which arms were laid down in Europe in 1945 and the Second World War ended with the official surrender of the German Wehrmacht.
Value: around 10,000 euros
Lang wanted to make the dove of peace available to the city of Schongau as a permanent loan; it was worth around 10,000 euros, it was briefly said at the meeting.
A loan agreement should be drawn up, perhaps the city could purchase the sculpture in due course if a sponsor can be found, according to Mayor Falk Sluyterman, who apparently made the contact.
The artist, who was born in Oberammergau in 1946, was pleased to have his bronze sculpture installed when asked by the Schongauer Nachrichten.
Lang has several connections to Schongau.
After two exhibitions in the Schongau City Museum, the Lechstadt had already purchased one of the Lang works of art through the mediation of the then mayor Luitpold Braun, namely the large bronze pig, which points to the former location of the cattle market on Münzstrasse near the Hotel Blaue Traube.
Several sculptures in public spaces
There is also a watercolor painting by the artist Heinz Kaufmann from Rosenheim hanging in the town hall of the town of Schongau, a view of a church in the twin town of Lucca, which he gave to the town.
“That’s how we came into contact with Mayor Sluyterman,” says Lang.
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The bronze pig is just one of various public sculptures that Hubert Georg Lang has created so far, including the Rottwagen on Max-Streibl-Platz in Oberammergau.
There are already quite a number of peace doves, for example at the chapel on the island of Wörth/Staffelsee, at the Pilatushaus in Oberammergau, in the Amolterer Heide in Endingen and at Champhol-Platz in Riegel, both located on the Kaiserstuhl.
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The dove of peace in the Schongau monastery garden should not be the last, as Lang reports.
“It is the mayor's idea that a peace dove should also be set up in all Schongau's twin towns - it would be nice if that could succeed.” Unfortunately, not much has come of it so far, the artist regrets.
“But Schongau is now making a start.”
Importance of this symbol of peace
Lang points out the importance of this symbol of peace - Noah also sent out the bird, which came back with an olive branch.
Lang also refers to Pablo Picasso's Dove of Peace, which has become a symbol of peace worldwide.
He really likes the place that his permanent loan will have in the monastery courtyard: the peace memorial will be placed exactly opposite the war memorial, a place where the soldiers who died or are missing in the wars are remembered.
Lang attended the wood carving school in Oberammergau and studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the class of Professor Georg Brenninger.
Lang also dealt intensively with painting, including at the Art Academy in Stuttgart with Alfred Hrdlicka.
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His connection to Italy is great: the sculptor, painter and graphic artist gave painting courses at Arezzo, and many of his works were created in Italy.
Hubert Lang lived in Uffing from 1981 to 1992, then went back to Oberammergau and has lived in Riegel since 2014.