DYCKERHOFF
Concrete art in the garden of the Städel Museum
“Colormaster F” – is what Manuel Franke calls his monumental 50-m long art object that provides the spatial boundary of the garden of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main. The name itself gives an idea of the significance accorded the coloring: an orange corrugated-steel membrane has been cast into a bright-blue pedestal in a concrete element made on the basis of Dyckerhoff white cement. Dyckerhoff Weiss, an aesthete among the cements for manufacturing colored cements, is especially well-suited for coloring concrete components. The light natural color of the material brings out the...
