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Friedrich IV presented himself as the legitimate ruler of a thriving and fertile land. The small gables display statues to underscore this belief: the goddess of justice and female figures representing spring and summer. For preservation purposes, the sculptures on the facade were replaced with replicas around 1900.
- East Versus West: Nikolaiviertel and The Sculpture Boulevard
- Preserving The Historically Valuable and Creating Space For The New
- Berlin's Magnificent Centre: from Emperors to Warriors and Queens
- Tiergarten and Charlottenburg: from Berlin Mitte to The Kaiser's Dolls
- After The Second World War: Traces of Division and Berlin Wall Art
- Façades and Walls as Witnesses of History
- From The Kulturforum to Potsdamer Platz: Contemporary Art in Public Space
- Memorials and Monuments
- Courageous People and Dissenters That Still Move Berlin
- Prominently Placed: Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt and Government District
Right next to the Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas’ Church), a bear towers six metres above an octagonal fountain basin. Built to celebrate Berlin's 750th anniversary in 1987, the Gründungsbrunnen (Coat of Arms Fountain) is part of the reconstruction of the Nikolaiviertel, which was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War. The West contraste...
Art in urban space has always been a balancing act in Berlin. On the one hand, it is important to preserve what is historically valuable and at the same time create space for the new ideas of the next generation. That's why in Berlin Wilhelminian stucco façades can be found next to fire walls with colourful street art. Sculptures from the imperial ...
On a walk along Berlin's grand boulevard Unter den Linden and in Berlin's Mitte district, you will be accompanied by impressive equestrian statues. In front of the Old Palace (Altes Palais), today's Faculty of Law, the bronze-cast Alte Fritz is enthroned on his favourite horse Condé, already marked by wrinkles but still full of pride in his Prussia...
In Tiergarten you will encounter composer Richard Wagner (Tiergartenstraße 18) and Prussia's most beautiful queen,Louise of Prussia. Her husband, Frederick III, stands opposite the beauty carved in marble on the other side of the watercourse around Luiseninsel. Louise is said to have enjoyed walking here herself. So did many other Berliners, whom F...
Even more monumental than the equestrian statues are the two Soviet memorials to the fallen soldiers of the Red Army. One can be found in Treptower Park, which invites you to explore its vast grounds. The other is located on the Straße des 17. Juni, near the Brandenburg Gate, oddly enough in the western part of the city. This mystery is explained b...
Although many walls and façades were destroyed during the Second World War, you will still find highlights when walking through Berlin: lavish stucco from the Wilhelminian period (Kronprinzenpalais), playful Art Nouveau elements (Amstel House), the simple elegance of Berlin Modernism, and of course, time and again, contemporary art on the building ...
If you walk from the Kulturforum towards Potsdamer Platz, you will see Olafur Eliasson's Windspiegelwand (Wind-mirror wall) glittering on the façade of the GIZ building on Reichpietschufer. Depending on the wind and weather, the small mirrors reflect clouds, sky and trees in the surrounding area, a poetic complement to the urban landscape. Not far ...
Today,memorials and monuments are important and impressive elements of Berlin's cityscape. Peter Eisenmann's field of stelae, theMemorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, is probably the most central memorial. But traces can be found everywhere in the city; the Places of Remembrance in the Bavarian Quarter display the Nazi decrees for the disenfranc...
The courageous people who stood up against the abuses have also been commemorated. One example is the Georg Elser Memorial at Wilhelmstraße 90, erected in 2011 to mark the 72nd anniversary of the failed attempt on Hitler's life. Or the handcuffed youth that is the focal point of the German Resistance Memorial Center's courtyard of honour,which was ...
Another exciting place to discover art is on the Spree behind the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, one of many Berlin buildings designed by architect Werner Düttmann. In the water basin in front of the building, Henry Moore's bronze "Butterfly" is a fitting counterpart to the curved architecture of the Pregnant Oyster, as Berliners call the HKW. If you ...
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Oct 1, 2021 · Last summer, statues were seemingly coming down left and right. After the police murder of George Floyd sparked widespreads protests against racial injustice and police brutality, communities ...
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Dec 16, 2019 · The grand facade of St Peter's Basilica is crowned with thirteen colossal statues. In the centre stands Christ the Redeemer (6 metres high) and you may be forgiven for assuming that he is flanked by his 12 apostles. However, this is not quite the case. The basilica might be dedicated to St Peter, but the 'Prince of the Apostles' is nowhere to ...
Jul 11, 2022 · Opera Magazine is the online space of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, where you can find insights on our historical, artistic and spiritual heritage.. Here you can find an updated and implemented series of short articles on the characters and the most and least known historical events that have traced the over seven centuries old existence of the Opera.
The toppling of statues has occurred for the same reasons they were erected in the first place: to construct a collective memory which aligns with the political ideals of a society. As the public debates the merits of the #RhodesMustFall and #TakeThemDown movements, here are ten episodes in the history of monument takedowns which illustrate ...
