Hubert Löneke’s sculpture of three children holding up their bent pinkie is alluding to the greeting gesture of people from Aachen when they meet each other away from the town, a sort of recognisable code.

Without these three men we might not read books today. The sculpture at the Frankfurt Rossmarkt depicts Johannes Gutenberg,his collaborator Peter Schöffer and the publisher Johannes Fust.

An example of art during the Nazi regime in Germany these three first world war soldiers (at the time of the installation, 1936, still considered the only world war) are at the centre of a the lists of the fallen of the town, in the 1950s the dead of the second world war were added.

Thursday Trios

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