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Body of Knowledge Sculpture

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Body of Knowledge Sculpture

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Location: Hesse, Germany

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Frank Skibbe

September 22, 2018

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The sculpture stands for a cosmopolitan university.

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Joachim N. 🇺🇦

October 23, 2022

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The eight meter high sculpture was erected in 2010 in the open space between the center of the lecture hall and the extension to the casino. The figure of a seated human body is composed of individual letters from eight different alphabets. It symbolizes what defines the university. The artist Jaume Plensa puts it this way: “Our body is the seat of the spirit. The university is an extension of our body. A meeting place where people and ideas, tradition and future meet for dialogue and weave the web of human knowledge.”

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Niklas

March 31, 2024

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The sculpture "Body of Knowledge" of a seated human body by Jaume Plensa consists of individual letters of eight different alphabets.

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