Kiepenkerl jeff koons biography
Kiepenkerl jeff koons biography
Jeff koons biography sculpture...
Jeff Koons
Kiepenkerl, Installation view, Summer © Jeff Koons
Der Kiepenkerl in Edelstahl[Kiepenkerl in stainless steel]
Stainless steel sculpture
x 80 x cm, kg
On loan from the Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA
Location
Corner of Spiekerhof / Bergstraße, outside the entrance to the tavern “Grosser Kiepenkerl”.
Installation for the duration of Skulptur Projekte in Münster , inaugurated on 14 June
Owner
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Jeff Koons
* in York, Pennsylvania, USA
lives and works in New York, USA, and York, Pennsylvania, USA
With his sculpture Kiepenkerl Jeff Koons replaced the bronze statue of the “Kiepenkerl” on Spiekerhof with a perfect copy made of polished stainless steel.
The “Kiepenkerl” character, a peddler with cap and pipe who traditionally travelled around the Münsterland region bearing his woven basket of ware