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Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten

1988


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten

1988


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten

1988


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten

1988


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten Detail view

Hermann Kesten

1988

Detail view


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten Detail view

Hermann Kesten

1988

Detail view


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten

1988


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten

1988


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten

1988


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten

1988


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten upper part of the body

Hermann Kesten

1988

upper part of the body


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten Inscription on the front

Hermann Kesten

1988

Inscription on the front


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, Zeitungs-Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten Artist's signature (back left corner)

Hermann Kesten

1988

Artist's signature (back left corner)


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten Bust in the café (Terracotta, around 1987)

Hermann Kesten

1988

Bust in the café (Terracotta, around 1987)


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten Bust in the café (Terracotta, around 1987)

Hermann Kesten

1988

Bust in the café (Terracotta, around 1987)


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten Bust in the café (Terracotta, around 1987)

Hermann Kesten

1988

Bust in the café (Terracotta, around 1987)


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Hermann Kesten Poet stands in the café" in the former cloister of the Katharinenkloster

Hermann Kesten

1988

Poet stands in the café" in the former cloister of the Katharinenkloster


I am a walker.

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I do not want to go.           (=lines of the inscription)

I went through Nuremberg and stood in Berlin.

Unawares I passed through Paris and Amsterdam.

And stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway.

And walk through Rome

For twenty-two years,

From the Pantheon to the Pincio,

From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza Navona.

In all my pockets I carry millennia,

(...)


Hermann Kesten: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, p. 394-395


Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Newspaper Cafe Hermann Kesten

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

Material: Bronze

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Wilhelm Franz
Uhlig

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