"The prodigal son"

The bronze group of figures is located at the city harbor. The work is based on the biblical parable of the prodigal son. The younger son demands his inheritance from his father, takes the money and leaves him. Having squandered his fortune, he suffered from hunger and ate with the pigs. He remembered how well off even the lowest had it in his father's house and went on his way. He was ashamed and asked his father for forgiveness. But the father greeted him joyfully and organized a feast for the man who had returned.

Stephan Voigtländer was born in Greifswald in 1965. In 1982, he completed an apprenticeship as a woodworker and graduated from high school. He became a wood turner, restorer and model maker. He then studied sculpture at the University of Art and Design in Halle-Burg Giebichenstein. He received his diploma in 1998 and was a master student there with Prof. Bernd Göbel until 2000. He worked as a freelance sculptor from 2000, teaching at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig from 2007. He died in Leipzig in 2011