Description
3.6-meter-high bronze sculpture of a boat with seven people, a skeleton and a dog in it. The sculpture is based on Albrecht Dürer's woodcut illustrating the 1497 edition of Das Narrenschiff (first edition 1494 - Wikipedia). by Sebastian Brant (1457-1521). It depicts a boat - a nutshell with two fools masks at front and rear - as a metaphor for the threatened world. The figures represent:
- on the left side the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, brought in despair by the laughing death, with Cain, still as a child, but with a knife in his hand. Behind them the tree of wisdom, already withered, serving as mast.
- on the right side three figures: (1) a choleric muscular man with a club, standing for violence, (2) a handyman with a spanner, representing a realist from the present time, and (3) and a limp mocker for resignation, who empties the cup.
The two texts bands make an appeal against environmental destruction, war and violence.
Inscription(s)
On the right edge of the boat:
ein narr ist, wer viel gutes hört und doch nicht seine weisheit mehrt, wer allzeit wünscht erfahrung viel und sich davon nicht bessern will
ZERSTöREN DAS LIEBEN, DER TOD LACHT HOHN
and on the left edge:
ein narr ist, wer für wunder hält, dass gott der herr jetzt straft die welt und plag' auf plage schicket noch dieweil wir seien christen doch. s. brant 1494
GEWALT + TECHNIK UND RESIGNATION -
Signed: jürgen weber 1984-87
guss herbich
Information Sign
Twice the same sign:
gestiftet von
KURT KLUTENTRETER
urenkel der eva maria weber,
tochter des bleistiftfabrikanten munker,
frühere besitzerin des anwesens
plobenhofstrasse 1-3
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Annotation
The sculpture should have been the center of a fountain, but the fountain is never executed. A second copy of this sculpture is in Hameln.
Sculptor
- Jürgen Weber (Münster, Westf., 1928 - Pou d'es Lleo, Ibiza, 2007),
German sculptor from Braunschweig
(Wikipedia).
Sources & Information
Tags
Locatie (N 49°27'11" - E 11°4'41") (Satellite view: Google Maps)
Item Code: deby218; Photograph: 28 September 2011
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