London’s Public Art: South of the River by Bernard Schottlander

In 1924 a man was born in Germany. In 1939 he fled to the UK as a refugee. In 1976 he designed a large steel sculpture for London, and on the centenary of his birth, it’s still there.Bernard Schottlander was a German-born designer and sculptor but fled to the UK in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. During the war, he worked in a factory as a welder before taking a course in sculpture at Leeds College of Art and subsequently – with the help of a bursary – at the Anglo-French art cent