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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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Breaststroke and Freestyle Swimmer Sculptures at Rohrwiesensee

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Location: Waldenbuch, Landkreis Böblingen, Stuttgart District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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3. Sulzbach Riverside Path – Sulzbach Reservoir loop from Waldenbuch

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Kristian

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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Kevin Hauer ☮️🧭🥾

April 4, 2025

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

Quoted here from the brochure:
"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 has positioned two swimmers at a pond near the museum trail in Waldenbuch: a "breaststroke swimmer" and a "crawl swimmer." In their orange-red and blue colors, they radiate a certain sensual joy, a pleasant bathing experience.
But 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 the design. 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 vocabulary of forms, which appears rather angular in three-dimensional representation. It is all the more astonishing, then, with what reduced body language she brings the dry-water swimmers into a flowing, almost leap-ready movement. Nevertheless, one must further explore her image of humanity in existential terms. 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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April 25, 2023

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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Location: Waldenbuch, Landkreis Böblingen, Stuttgart District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Breaststroke and Freestyle Swimmer Sculptures at Rohrwiesensee

1. Segelbach Reservoir – Segelbachtal loop from Waldenbuch

2. Segelbachtal – Fäulbachsee loop from Dettenhausen

3. Sulzbach Riverside Path – Sulzbach Reservoir loop from Waldenbuch

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