Harald Winter

After his Abitur, the final secondary school examinations in 1973, he entered the Nuremberg Academy of Arts (“Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg”) and completed his studies in 1978.

At first glace they may seem playful, yet on closer inspection of the individual works, they are witty and incisive, somewhat reflecting the darker undercurrents of the times, even touching upon current affairs and politics.

In his project Winter is quoting an excerpt from Tieck's travel diary: “All of nature is to man, if he is poetically inclined, just a mirror in which he only rediscovers himself.” The seemingly floating metal ring containing the words circles the inside of the roundabout and rises in a spiral shape.

Material: Coated aluminum, goldleaf, length of metal ring: 49.20 m, height: 1.07 m.[20] According to a ranking published by the German automobile club ADAC, the Kersbach roundabout is one of the 11 most extraordinary of the world.

The physical structure itself features a slightly curved semicircle of twelve square granite columns, the height of each increasing with the passing hours of the day.

Winter has created an interactive memorial that can be walked on in Kleemann's native town, by setting a 5.5 meter long band of granite with inlaid letters of stainless steel into the pavement of Wilhelm-Kleemann Weg.