J. Patrick Lannan accumulated over 5,000 pieces of contemporary paintings and sculptures. Some of them were housed in the Lannan Estate in Palm Beach and some in the Lannan Museum on Lake Avenue in Lake Worth. At the time of his death, Mr. Lannan was considering building a large museum on this campus [PBJC Lake Worth] to house the entire collection and future acquisitions. The [Lannan Foundation] board decided to keep much of the sculptures in South Fla [upon Mr. Lannan's death]. The donations to PBJC [for this garden ]were four works by three artists, two Germans and one Japanese[Karl Prantl, Erich Reischke, and Yasuo Mizui]. All of these works were commissioned by Mr. Lannan. The artists executed the works in Maine [maybe Vermont?]. All the marble is Maine marble. The works were then transported to Lannan's estate in Palm Beach. The garden was designed by Mark Hampton, the Miami-based architect who redesigned the art deco movie theatre in Lake Worth which now houses the Lannan Museum [at that time].
(from Contact, December 1986)
The three artists were together at the Vermont International Sculpture Symposium, 1971 along with Lois Ingram, Paul Aschenbach, Viktor Rogy, Herbert Baumann, Ken Campbell, Janez Lenassi, Yasuo Mizui, Minoru Niizuma, Philip Pavia, Karl Prantl, Erich Reischke, see: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/paul-aschenbach-papers-7308
Could it have been as the result of this symposium that Mr. Lannan bought his sculptures?
Information on artist Karl Prantl:
http://www.tanzatelierwien.at/karlprantl/_download/files/Karl%20Prantl_From%20Poettsching.pdf
http://www.danubiana.sk/eng/exh_prantl.html
Information on artist Eric Reischke:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Reischke (in German)
Information on artist Yasuo Mizui:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuo_Mizui(in German); Similar sculpture to the one in Lannan Garden:
https://www.desertsculpture.info/en/portfolio/yasuo-mizui-tribute-to-the-negev/
Meilach, Dona Z. Contemporary Stone Sculpture: Aesthetics, Methods, Appreciation. 1970.
Location: PBSC Archives NB1208.M441987.
All three sculptors are mentioned in this book, including a few photographs of their work.
The sculpture is 4'5" wide x 14' long x 2'10" high and it weighs sixteen (16) tons. "Meditation Stones is not yet complete. The indentations on the top of the sculpture are for a number of marble spheres of various size. They were simply lying in place at the Lannan Estate, but in the present setting, it would be necessary to devise a means from anchoring them firmly in place as unobstrusively as possible" (Contact, December 1986).
[It seems the sculpture setup was never completed. They may have been unable to anchor the missing parts.]
This sculpture is ten and one half (10.5) tons of pure white marble. It is 7'8" high and 6' wide (Contact, December 1986).
This composite sculpture is by Erich Reischkle. The sixteen (16) pieces have a combined weight of about fifteen (15) tons. The title of this work is carved around the corner of one of the pieces in German and reads WIR SIND NOCH KEINE MENSCHEN IM HUMANISTICHEN SINNE. This has been translated as "We are not yet human in the spirit of humanity" (Contact, December 1986).
Bernard Kirschenbaum, Walk Through (1970) painted steel, 305 x 735 x 304 cm.
Note that the sculpture looked different depending on the angle from which the photographs below were taken.
Installation view at Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, Florida, artist biography, and representative works available on Postmasters.
