Südpark
Vast garden-show park of themed gardens, lakes and sculptures, entered past a field of station clocks.
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This guide to the Südpark in Düsseldorf stands you at its western gate, among a field of station clocks raised on steel poles for the garden show of nineteen eighty-seven. It follows the sculptor Klaus Rinke, a freight loader's son from the Ruhr who grew up beneath railway clocks, and the gravel pits and scrap yards this park replaced. Along the way you'll meet a second artist, Erich Reusch, and the daughter who rescued the colours of his leaning steel tubes.
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