Manchmal ist es unvermeidbar, dass im Zuge von Neubauma\u00dfnahmen alte B\u00e4ume gef\u00e4llt werden. So war es auch bei der Sanierung und Erweiterung des Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasiums in Bogenhausen. Dort musste eine alte hochgewachsene Buche einem flachen Anbau weichen, der an dieser Stelle geplant war.<\/p>\n
Bei der ersten Ortsbegehung beschloss Tim Bennett, der alten Buche, die so viele Sch\u00fclerkarrieren an der Seite des Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasiums \u00fcberdauert hatte, ein Denkmal zu setzen. Nachdem der Baum gefallen war, lie\u00df er den Stamm in Bronze abgie\u00dfen, und die Skulptur im Eingangsbereich aufstellen. In der neuen Pausenhalle erinnert eine Bronzefliese seinen urspr\u00fcnglichen Standort.<\/p>\n
Mit dem Titel der Arbeit \u201eEs war einmal ein Baum\u201c bezieht sich der K\u00fcnstler auf eine Textstelle in Wilhelm-Hausensteins Erz\u00e4hlung \u201eEin Baum ist gefallen\u201c. Der Autor verbindet darin seine melancholischen Naturbeobachtungen mit den Zeitl\u00e4ufen. Um die Sch\u00fcler mit in die Arbeit einzubeziehen, veranstaltete Bennett einen Workshop, bei dem die Teilnehmer eingeladen waren, Text- und Bildfragmente zu finden, die sie in den Stamm des Baumes als Erinnerungszeichen einritzen wollten. Ziel war es, nicht nur die eigenen Befindlichkeiten zu reflektierten, sondern auch zu \u00fcberlegen, wie zuk\u00fcnftige Sch\u00fclergenerationen die Beitr\u00e4ge wahrnehmen werden.<\/p>\n
Gemeinsam mit dem K\u00fcnstler besuchten die Sch\u00fcler die Gie\u00dferei im M\u00fcnchener Westend, um dort ihre Zeichen in die noch weiche Wachspositivform f\u00fcr den bevorstehenden Bronzeguss zu ritzen. Tim Bennetts Arbeit \u201eEin Baum ist gefallen…\u201c erinnert somit nicht nur an ein St\u00fcck vergangene Natur, sondern auch an die Sch\u00fclerinnen und Sch\u00fcler, die an diesem Gymnasiums einige Jahre ihres Lebens verbracht haben und dann ins Leben entlassen wurden.<\/p>\n","werk_txt_long_en":"
Sometimes it is inevitable that old trees are felled when new construction is erected. This was the case when the Wilhelm Hausenstein Gymnasium in Bogenhausen was renovated and expanded. A tall, old beech tree had to give way to a flat annex that had been planned for this spot.<\/p>\n
On his first visit to the site, Tim Bennett decided to create a memorial to the old beech, which had survived so many students during the years it stood next to the Wilhelm Hausenstein Gymnasium. After the tree was chopped down, he had its trunk cast in bronze and installed the sculpture near the entrance. A bronze plaque in the new break room recalls its original location.<\/p>\n
With the title of the piece, Once Upon a Time There was a Tree, the artist refers to a section of Wilhelm Hausenstein\u2019s tale \u201cA Tree is Felled.\u201d In it the author links his melancholy observations of nature with the passage of time. To include the school\u2019s pupils in the work, Bennett conducted a workshop in which the participants were invited to find fragments of texts and images that they wanted to etch into the tree trunk, as signs of remembrance. The goal was not only to reflect upon their own feelings, but also to think about how future generations of students would perceive their contributions.<\/p>\n
The students and the artist paid a visit to the foundry in Munich\u2019s West End to carve their signs into the still-soft wax mold for the bronze casting. Thus, Tim Bennett\u2019s work A Tree is Felled not only recalls a bit of nature from the past but also the pupils who spent a few years of their lives in this school and were then released into life.<\/p>\n","werk_collections":false,"werk_sort_data_artists":"Tim Bennett","werk_sort_data_access":"\u00f6ffentlich zug\u00e4nglich","werk_sort_data_year":"2013","werk_sort_data_category":"Skulptur \/ Plastik","werk_sort_data_district":"Bogenhausen"},"featured_image_src_1280":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/quivid-muenchen-tim-bennett-es-war-einmal-ein-baum-kunst-am-bau-2013-01-1280x854.jpg","featured_image_src_768":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/quivid-muenchen-tim-bennett-es-war-einmal-ein-baum-kunst-am-bau-2013-01-768x512.jpg","artists":[{"name":"Tim Bennett","url":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/artist\/bennett-tim\/"}],"tax_category":"Skulptur \/ Plastik","tax_access":"\u00f6ffentlich zug\u00e4nglich","tax_district":"Bogenhausen","tax_year":2013,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6189,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/6189"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5067"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5066"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5065"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/1294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"access","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/access?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"accessibility","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/accessibility?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"space","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/space?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}