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Johann Sebastian Bach
Eisenach 1685 - Leipzig 1750
German composer
(Wikipedia)

Jürgen Goertz
2003

Description

Aluminium sculpture shaped as a kind of upside down column: the pedestal is on the top of a column. On the column are silhouet portraits of Bach. The four sides of the 'block' on top show:

a relief portrait of Bach with Bach's signature,
a sphere with music notation, "Das Königliche Thema",
a stone relief showing Bach's portrait divided in four parts, in the center a alumnium plate with the text "B.A.C.H.", music notation with the dates 1685-1750, and a silhouet portrait.
a kind of gramophone record with Bach's signature and the text "Musikalisches Opfer"

Inscription(s)

Signed: (portrait) 25.7.2003 Jürgen Goertz
(stone relief) Jürgen Goertz 25.7.03

Annotation

Unveiled 25 July 2003.

Sculptor

Jürgen Goertz (Albrechtshagen, Lkr. Gnesen 1939), German sculptor from Sinsheim (Wikipedia – Website).

Locatie (N 49°18'10" - E 10°34'18") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: deby259; Photograph: 29 September 2011
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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