Welge Er konnte schon immer durch die Decke stoßen

The Sculptor Friedhelm Welge (*1952) lives in Frankfurt am Main, has his studio in Bad Camberg and works realistically and expressively. From his central work PROJEKT 14 (14 sculptures on the topic of human rights), Ardi Goldman Three sculptures have been acquired. For over 40 years, the sculptor has been working artistically, and for the same period he has also been writing. In doing so, he follows the credo: „Writing is raging and raging in the quarry of language.“ For example, the poetry collection WORTSTEINE was published in 2025; it contains poems about all four sculptures that can be seen in the Union area. He prefers to work with marble, sandstone, diabase, limestone, and granite. But he also repeatedly uses wood, bronze, or develops object-like forms.

His sculptural and linguistic work interpenetrate each other. For Welge, sculpture is never just form but always also condensed narrative, historical echo, and existential inquiry. In the three works gathered here from PROJEKT 14, this connection is particularly evident – they combine individual destinies, spiritual attitudes, and spiritual dimensions with the overarching theme of human rights.