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Art from a good home

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Art as a contribution to society

With art, FRANKONIA Eurobau has discovered a way of expressing the inexpressible. Whether it's music, sculpture, painting or photography: Art always moves. Triggers feelings and thoughts. Creates relationships. Leads to discussions. That's why FRANKONIA Eurobau supports art and artists in a wide variety of forms. By equipping private and public spaces, through events, through art in buildings or by donating works of art for a charitable purpose.

The Andreas Quartier:
A whole quarter for art.

Wall of Freedom

The artist HA Schult designed the colorful "Freedom Wall", which was unveiled together with Lord Mayor Thomas Geisel and Uwe Schmitz, CEO of FRANKONIA Eurobau, in front of the building of the co-working provider "Spaces" in the Andreas Quartier. "Freedom is the good that we have to fight for. The Wall of Freedom is Düsseldorf's answer to the attack on our inner freedom." Thousands of citizens of the city were called upon to name their of freedom - thus inspiring HA Schult to create this great work of art.

Nuhr im Andreas Quartier

The Wellem Düsseldorf has exhibited premises selected works of renowned artists such as Leon Löwentraut, Jeff Koons, Stephan Kaluza and Julian Schnabel. The concept is a tribute to the the patron of the arts and elector Prince Elector Jan Wellem. A special art highlight can be found in the Terrace Art Suites on the fifth floor. Each suite is decorated with original works by one of the artists. Those who feel inspired to be creative,

At Home

In April 2016, the Andreas Quartier opened its doors to the public for the first time when it became the center of the art campaign "Daheim - At Home: das Wohnen kommt nach Hause". Life-size sculptures by the well-known artist HA Schult were the first to move into the Andreas Quartier. As vagabonds of the consumer era and cosmopolitans, they have been traveling the globe for twenty years. The art project is considered the largest in the world.

Unveiling of the Mother Ey statue

The collaboration between the Düsseldorfer
Jonges, FRANKONIA Eurobau and the artist Bert Gerresheim to honor a legendary Düsseldorf patron of the arts with a monument is an initiative of significant cultural and historical relevance. The bronze sculpture was designed by Bert Gerresheim, a Düsseldorf sculptor who knew Johanna Ey personally. Ey, known for her devoted, motherly support of up-and-coming artists, had a formative influence on Gerresheim. As a twelve-year-old, she encouraged him to follow the artistic path and advocated for his artistic education with his parents. The unveiling
of the Mother-Ey monument on September 25, 2017 on the newly named Mutter-Ey-Platz on Neubrückstraße in front of the Andreas Quartier marked the appreciation of an important chapter in Düsseldorf's urban art history.

Stephan Kaluza - The Rhine Project

In April 2020, the photographic artwork "Alles bleibt im Fluss Everything remains in the river Stephan Kaluza - Das Rheinprojekt" The Rhine Project adorned the exterior façade of the Andreas Quartier. This installation, created from over 21,000 photographs by the Düsseldorf artist Stephan Kaluza, celebrates the Rhine as a symbol of hope and the unshakeable power of life. The river, which has overcome challenges such as world wars and environmental environmental crises, is at the center of this at the center of this art project, which vitality and constancy of the Rhine emphasizes. In August 2020, a temporary a temporary floor installation, depicting the riverbed of the Rhine, the artistic experience in the Andreas Quartier and invited visitors to experience the experience the dynamics of the river up close.

The Andreas Quartier
is full of surprises.

Dieter Nuhr

Dieter Nuhr works as an artist on various platforms. He is one of the most successful/richest satirists Germany and a visual artist. After studying art with a with a focus on painting, he now devotes himself conceptual photography. He travels the world, documents remote worlds, transforms them into images and thus creates an archive of unnoticed places.

Jiří Dokoupil

Jiří "Georg" Dokoupil is a renowned renowned contemporary artist, known for his innovative styles and painting techniques. Born in the Czech Republic, he emigrated at the age of age of 12 during the Prague Spring Prague Spring with his family to Germany. He studied art from 1976 to 1978 he studied art in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main and at the Cooper Union in New York with Hans Haacke. Dokoupil was a co-founder of the Cologne artists' group Mülheimer group, which was active from 1980 and whose members used a studio in Cologne. used a studio in Cologne. Since the 1980s, he has made a name for himself in the art scene and is known for his contributions to museums museums, the art market and major exhibitions, including the the Documenta.

STEPHAN KALUZA

Nature. In the artistic work Stephan Kaluza's artistic work is fundamentally about it, be it in photographic or photographic or painterly compositions; also in his literary oeuvre. During the Rhine project, the artist walked 1700 km along the banks of the river and shot around 50,000 pictures, which he subsequently into a long strip of pictures that into a long strip of pictures showing the from its source to its mouth - a total total capture that reveals a complex landscape for the human eye in the first place. made a complex landscape tangible for the human eye.

Selected and Related
Schinkelplatz Collection

SELECTED AND RELATED: The art book for the project

Frankonia Eurobau Art Collection

What would life be without art? As an intellectual confrontation, as creative inspiration, as an aesthetic eye-catcher: with the Schinkelplatz Collection, one encounters sculptures, paintings and photographs by outstanding representatives of contemporary art in each of the Unique Residences. The contributions by Dieter Nuhr and Stephan Kaluza were created especially for the Humboldt Lounge.**

The diversity of the contemporary works and their artists once again pays tribute to the basic idea of uniqueness. At the same time, many works make reference to the location on Schinkelplatz, the history and its historical protagonists.

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