Entrance Area of the DomQuartier by Elmar Trenkwalder
As part of the initiative „Kunst am Bau“ and in the course of the opening of the DomQuartier in 2014, the entrance of the Old Residence was decorated with some contemporary accents.
The opening of the new DomQuartier in 2014 also featured a remodeling of the entrance area of the Alte Residenz. Austrian Elmar Trenkwalder was commissioned with adding new artistic accents. In terms of form, his point of departure was the façade of the Residenz as well as the ceramic stoves inside the building.
Adopting the colors ochre, blue and white, he referenced the Hercules Fountain in the courtyard itself. Both of the sidewalls as well as the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the walkway between the Residenzplatz and the courtyard are decorated with more than 400 individual objects to create an all-encompassing ceramic relief.
The complete work seems to unite heaven and earth, especially by means of the blue “stars” on the ceiling. The large-scale ceramic pillars on the right and left sides are somewhat reminiscent of monstrances, borrowing on historical models from antiquity to Jugendstil, or abstractions of large drops that flow from the sky.
