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Allegorien von Maschinenbau, Bildhauerei und Astronomie

Allegories of Engineering, Sculpture and Astronomy

Carl von Kurtz
1879

Stuttgart / Allegorien von Maschinenbau, Bildhauerei und Astronomie

Description

Three sandstone statues of personifications of Astronomy, Sculpture and Engineering.

Annotation

These three statues are the only ones left from the ten statues on the façade of the main building of the University. These ten statues were personifications of the ten subjects taught at the Polytechnic: sculpture, chemistry, geology, engineering, astronomy, painting, botany, physics, engineering and architecture. They were designed by Karl August Heinrich Kurtz and executed by various sculptors. The building was destroyed in 1944.

Sculptor

Carl August Heinrich von Kurtz (Stuttgart 1817 - Stuttgart 1887), German sculptor and Professor of freehand drawing at the School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart.

Sources & Information

Stuttgarter unikurier Nr. 93 April 2004, Die Skulpturen im Stadtgarten.

Locatie (N 48°46'52" - E 9°10'24") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: debw110; Photograph: 18 April 2012
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