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A segment the Museum am Checkpoint Charlie gave the painter Siegfried Rischar in 1991, painted with a rose in 2009 and given to the city by his children in 2017.
The Aschaffenburg painter Siegfried Rischar (1924–2009) lived and worked until his death in the studio house on Grünewaldstraße beside the Gentil-Haus, the city's museum of the collector Anton Gentil. The city archive's register of public art records that in 1991 the Museum am Checkpoint Charlie gave him a segment of the Wall, as thanks for his years of cooperation with the museum and his long connection with the city, and that it was set up in the yard of his studio. In 1986 he had entered a competition to overcome the Wall by design and won a third prize for a design called „der Rosengruß“, which was never carried out; in 2009 he painted a variant of it on the segment. The Wall Net describes the result as a rose blooming out of the barbed wire on the grey concrete.
After his death his children gave the work to the city in 2017, which the archive says had been his express wish. The Wall Net's entry gives a different account of the gift — the museum's founder, Rainer Hildebrandt, as donor, and 2009 for the heirs' transfer to the city — and the archive's register is followed here. The register files the address as Grünewaldstraße 2; a comment on the entry gives it as Grünewaldstraße 20a, the studio house, and the Wall Net places the piece in front of the studio on Grünewaldstraße. The studio has been used by the sculptor Konrad Franz since March 2012.
How did it get here?
Given to Siegfried Rischar by the Museum am Checkpoint Charlie in 1991 and set up in the yard of his studio on Grünewaldstraße; painted by him in 2009; given to the city of Aschaffenburg by his children in 2017.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #19.
Segment Berliner Mauer — Aschaffenburg 2.0, Stadt- und Stiftsarchiv Aschaffenburg ↗
The city archive's public-art register: Siegfried Rischar received the segment from the Museum am Checkpoint Charlie in 1991 as thanks for his cooperation with the museum and his connection with the city, and set it up in the yard of his studio; his 1986 competition entry „der Rosengruß“ won a third prize but was not executed, and in 2009 he painted a variant of it on the segment; after his death his children gave the work to the city in 2017 at his express wish. Dated 1991–2009, steel concrete and paint; address given as Grünewaldstraße 2, corrected in a comment on the entry to Grünewaldstraße 20a.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Aschaffenburg, BY — The Wall Net ↗
One segment in the garden of the Gentil-Haus artists' villa: a fragment painted by Rischar has stood since 1991 as a memorial in front of the studio on Grünewaldstraße, a rose painted on the grey concrete blooming out of the barbed wire; the studio has been used by the sculptor Konrad Franz since March 2012; the Wall Net credits the gift to Rainer Hildebrandt, founder of the Mauermuseum, and dates the heirs' transfer to the city to 2009.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 19
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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