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Rupert's Needle

Alistair Lambert & Pupils of the Prince Rupert School in Rinteln
2014

Description

A ceramic clad obelisk with on the top a phoenix. The ceramic reliefs reflect what the creators associate with Rinteln. The children favour things like ice cream, sunshine and things they enjoy. The cook contributes a platter in the shape of a cake. The play of colours continues from blue to gold at the top. A bird is mounted at the top, a dove modelled by the artist himself. There are a few texts: prince rupert school 1972-2014, stadt rinteln, lasting friendship,, dauerhafte freundschaft and the school's motto sapienta ex igne (wisdom from the flames).
It commemorates the closure of the Prince Rupert School, a secondary school in Rinteln operated by the Service Children's Education for children of military personnel and its employees of the former British sector of West Germany. It was unveiled 30 June 2014.

Rinteln - Rupert's Needle
The emblem of Prince Rupert School
Rinteln coat of arms, and below a heart made by a year five pupil from Fiji, showing the sun from her home country, a ball for sport, a Play station controller and an ice cream from the Eisdiele parlour in Rinteln.
Relief of the Phoenix with the school's motto

Signature

ALISTAIR.LAMBERT.co.uk

Sculptors

Alistair Lambert, British sculptor from London (Website).
Pupils of the Prince Rupert School in Rinteln

Sources & Information

Rinteln Akuell, 26 May 2014, Time to say goodbye: Eine Pyramide als Abschiedsgeschenk für Rinteln.
Rinteln Akuell, 30 June 2014, Der Himmel über Rinteln weint: Abschiedsgeschenk der Prince-Rupert-School überreicht.
Alistair Lambert, 'Rupert's Needle' - A public monument to mark the closure of a British Army school in Germany.
Wikipedia, Prince Rupert School.

Locatie (N 52°11'9" - E 9°4'42") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: dens575; Photograph: 27 July 2024
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