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Berlin
(Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg)
Stadt Berlin
Land Berlin

Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 2
(Axel-Springer-Hochhaus)

Väter der Einheit

Fathers of Unity

George Bush - Helmut Kohl - Mikhail Gorbachev

Serge Mangin
2010

Description

Memorial consisting of three busts on identical granite steles. The busts are of three actors of German reunification: from left to right, former US President George W. Bush, Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Berlin - Väter der Einheit
george
bush
George H.W. Bush (Milton, Mass. 1924 - Houston, Texas 2018)
41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 (Wikipedia).
helmut
kohl
Helmut Kohl (Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1930 - idem 2017)
Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (Wikipedia). Berlin - Väter der Einheit
michail s.
gorbatschow
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв (Privolnoye 1931 - Moscow 2022)
Russian and Soviet politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991 (Wikipedia).

Signature

(three times) Serge Mangin 2010

Sculptor

Serge Mangin (Paris 1947), French-German sculptor from München (Website – Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Bildhauerei in Berlin, Karte.
Wikipedia, Väter der Einheit.

Locatie (N 52°30'26" - E 13°23'48") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: debe175; Photograph: 2 September 2022
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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