What is Erdzeichen?
{{italic title}} [[File:Der Flughafen am Erdzeichen (Bild).jpg|thumb|''Erdzeichen'' seen from the air]] The '''''Erdzeichen''''' ({{lang-en|Earth Sign}}) is an artwork on the grounds of [[Munich]] Airport by the [[painter]] [[Wilhelm Holderied]] and the [[Sculpture|sculptor]] [[Karl Schlamminger]]. According to the artist, the earth [[sculpture]] at the airport is meant to be “An Island in Time,” i.e. a symbol of time sequences which are determined by the “[[primeval energy]] of the earth.” The ground-level artwork was completed in 1995. It stands in the tradition of archaic earth sculptures and modern works of [[Land Art]], and also calls to mind [[Smithson]]’s famous “[[Spiral Jetty]].” The Earthsign stretches across an area measuring 270 meters by 170 meters. Its [[Furrow|furrows]] are 3.40 meters deep. These furrows and the tall [[gravel]] [[Embankment|embankments]] between them circle a central point, continue in a straight row, form a [[loop]] and then flow in [[Irregularity|irregular]]<nowiki/>ly [[Undulation|undulatin]]<nowiki/>g lines into the surrounding field, where they end at a straight line. The artwork was paid for by about 400 [[Donor|donors]] in a campaign entitled “Be Part of Art.” The aerial [[archaeological]] [[photographer]] Klaus Leidorf has [[Documentation|documented]] the earth sculpture and the changes which nature and the [[seasons]] have brought to it since 1994. ==References== * Howard Fine [u.a.]: ''Eine Insel für die Zeit – Ein Erdzeichen entsteht''. Hirmer, München 1995, {{ISBN|3-7774-6680-8}}. * Johannis von dem Borne [u.a]: ''In die Erde gezeichnet''. Isensee, Oldenburg 2003, {{ISBN|3-89995-033-X}}. * Räto Weiler [u.a.]: ''Bewahrt eine Insel für die Zeit – Preserve an Island in Time''. München 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-00-034770-2}}. * Howard Fine [u.a.]: ''Die Wurzeln, das Echo, die Ufer''. Werkstattbuch. Hirmer, München 1989, {{ISBN|3-922645-13-5}}. * Howard Fine [u.a.]: ''Magnetische Ufer''. Werkstattbuch. Hirmer, München 2000, {{ISBN|3-7774-8900-X}}. * Gerd Holzheimer [u.a.]: ''