Art - mostly public - showing German humor & genius (and a little madness!)

We went to no art museums, but art was everywhere. By the end of the trip I had gathered this crazy group of images - things that "caught my eye."

Here you go:

This crazy thing in Amberg always makes me laugh. I think it is metal and glass or enamel.

Closer detail of public art in Amberg

The famous "spectacles" bridge, Amberg

 

On this side of the bridge however, it appears to create a skull

Large welded metal globe, Amberg

Tiles inside the globe, Amberg

Crazy thing at the Auto and Technik Museum Sinsheim - it appears to be some kind of windmill/whirligig

A closer look.

Wooden carving above door in Courtroom 600, Palace of Justice, Nuremberg

Statue above the entrance to the Palace of Justice

Chandelier in Courtroom 600, Palace of Justice, Nuremberg

Venus of Amberg by Lucia Torge, 2009. Public art - carved limestone,  Amberg

Reverse of Venus of Amberg

Flossenburg, sculpture by survivor

Deitrich Bonhoeffer statue, Flossenburg

Description of a "Rube Goldberg" type machine, The Imperator, Auto and Technik Museum, Sinsheim

The Imperator, Auto and Technik Museum, Sinsheim

Mirrors at the Hilton Hotel, Frankfurt Airport.

Part of Frankfurt Airport - it is a shiny Quonset hut shape and reflects the ever-changing activity below - like an inside-out Cloud Gate.

OK, I know...this one is silly, but I thought YC might like it...Yard art, Amberg