Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

• Frau, Geld darreichend (woman, handing money), signed: elmar dietz / 1951
• Geistigen Arbeiter mit der Schriftrolle (intellectual worker with scroll), signed: roland friederichsen / münchen- 1951 and guss v.h. mayr münchen
• Handarbeiter mit Zirkel (manual worker with compass), signed: elmar dietz / 1951
• Frauengestalt mit Ähre (Woman with ears of corn), signed: roland friederichsen / münchen- 1951

Annotation

Translation from Frauen in Bronze und Stein- München:

On 14 June 1950 the sculptors Elmar Dietz and Roland Friederichsen, together with the Directorate of the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank, agreed about the ornamentation of the portal area of the bank building: two young women and two young men in an allegorical program showing the starting points of the reconstruction of Germany: The four pillars of society are symbolized by the "intellectual worker with scroll" as a sign of the creative and organizing mind, and by a "woman with ears" as an indication of the utilization of vegetative forces of nature, and the "manual worker with a compass", a sign of mastery of physical forces, and by a "woman, handing money" as a symbol of commerce.

Sculptors

• Elmar Dietz (Jesserndorf, Unterfranken, 1902-München 1996), German sculptor (Wikipedia).
  
• Roland Friederichsen ([Pommern] 1910-1992), German sculptor and painter (Biography).

Sources & Information

• Martha Schad & Claudia Mayr, Frauen in Bronze und Stein- München (München 2008), no. 46 (Google books)

Tags

• Town: München
• Kreis: Stadt München
• Land: Bayern
• Country: Germany
• Dietz, Elmar
• Friederichsen, Roland
• Man with compass
• Man with scroll
• Woman with coin
• Woman with ears of corn

Location (N 48°8'24" - E 11°34'34")