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Breaststroke and Freestyle Swimmer Sculptures at Rohrwiesensee

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Breaststroke and Freestyle Swimmer Sculptures at Rohrwiesensee

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    September 27, 2025

    For all the abstraction in her large-scale sculptures, Birgit Rehfeldt is committed to figuration. Her mostly female figures are characterized by their titles and typified movements. For example, she positioned two swimmers at a pond near the museum trail in Waldenbuch: a "breaststroke swimmer" and a "crawl swimmer." Their orange-red and blue colors, respectively, radiate a certain sensuality, the pleasant pleasure of bathing. Yet, just by looking at the protagonists, one suspects that this is about more than just pure fun. The elegance of gliding through the water is lacking in their construction. Not only are they mounted above the water, which dooms their zeal, however motivated, to failure—the installation is also due to the local conditions—but it is characteristic of Rehfeldt's work that her alabaster and wooden sculptures are derived from a cubist-geometric formal vocabulary, which appears rather angular in the three-dimensional representation. It's all the more astonishing, then, how she uses reduced body language to bring the dry-water swimmers into a flowing, almost leaping movement. Nevertheless, her view of humanity must be further explored in existential terms. In the interplay of mass and proportion, the artist achieves tensions that transform external movements into inner life experiences. The swimmers are swimming for their lives: they are trying to master it in everyday life.

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      The sculpture is one of many along the "SCULPTOURA" sculpture trail in the Böblingen district (schoenbuch-heckengaeu.de/sculptoura/).

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      "Despite all the abstraction in her large-scale sculptures, Birgit Rehfeldt remains committed to figuration. Her mostly female figures are characterized by their titles and stylized movements. For example, she has positioned two swimmers at a pond along the museum trail in Waldenbuch: a 'breaststroker' and a 'freestyler.' In their orange-red and blue colors, respectively, they radiate a certain sensuality, a pleasant bathing pleasure. But even at first glance, one suspects that this is about more than just pure fun. The elegance of gliding through the water is absent from their execution." Not only are they affixed above the water, which dooms their motivated zeal to failure – the installation is also dictated by the local conditions –; it is characteristic of Rehfeldt's work that her alabaster and wooden sculptures are derived from a cubist-geometric vocabulary of forms, which appears rather angular in three-dimensional representation. All the more astonishing, then, is how she uses a reduced body language to bring the dry-land swimmers into a fluid, almost leaping movement. Nevertheless, one must consider her conception of humanity in a more existential light. In the interplay of mass and proportion, the artist creates tensions that transform external movements into inner life experiences. The swimmers are swimming for their lives: they are trying to master it in everyday life.

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        A new, recent highlight on the SCOULPTURA, the art trail of the Böblingen district: the two sculptures “Breaststroker and Kraulerin” by Birgit Rehfeldt made from epoxy resin.
        The angular and angular shapes of the individual body parts, some of which appear almost cubist, are guided by the artist into a flowing movement that is actually unimaginable at first. The two sculptures, the orange breaststroke swimmer and the medium blue freestyle swimmer, appear to be swimming in competition high up above Rohrwiesensee.

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