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Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg

Steintorplatz
(Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe)

Porträts von Schriftsteller, Künstler, Wissenschaftler, Historiker, Architekten usw.

Portrait busts of Writers, Artists, Scholars, Historians, Architects, etc.

artist unknown
1874-75

Hamburg / Porträts von Schriftsteller, Künstler, Wissenschaftler, Historiker, Architekten usw.

Description

The façades of the the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe are adorned with seventeen portrait-medaillons. East (Brockesstraße)

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joh. georg. buesch - Johann Georg Büsch, (Altenmedingen bei Lüneburg 1728 - Hamburg 1800), German educator and writer (Wikipedia).
joh. bugenhagen - Johannes Bugenhagen (Wollin 1485 - Wittenberg 1558), also called Doctor Pomeranus by Martin Luther, introduced the Protestant Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century (Wikipedia).
c.c. sonnin - Ernst Georg Sonnin (Quitzow 1713 - Hamburg 1794), German architect (Wikipedia).

South (Kurt-Schumacher-Allee)

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alex. v. humboldt - Alexander von Humboldt (Berlin 1769 - Berlin 1859), Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (Wikipedia).
g.f. leibnitz - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Leipzig 1646 - Hannover 1716), German mathematician and philosopher (Wikipedia).
joh. wolfg. goethe - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Frankfurt am Main 1749-Weimar 1832), German writer and polymath; considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in Western culture (Wikipedia).
gotth. ephr. lessing - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Kamenz 1729 - Braunschweig 1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic (Wikipedia).
fried. v. schiller - Friedrich von Schiller (Marbach am Neckar 1759 - Weimar 1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright (Wikipedia).
j.j. winkelmann - Johann Joachim Winckelmann (Stendal 1717 - Trieste 1768), German art historian and archaeologist (Wikipedia).
jacob grimm - Jacob Grimm (Hanau 1785 - Berlin 1863), with his brother Wilhelm Grimm, German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore (Wikipedia).

West (railway)

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j.f. redtenbacher - Ferdinand Redtenbacher (Steyr 1809 - Karlruhe 1863), founder of science-based mechanical engineering (Wikipedia).
gottfr. semper - Gottfried Semper (Hamburg 1803 - Roma 1879), German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture (Wikipedia).
asm.j. carstens - Asmus Carstens (St. Jürgen bei Schleswig 1754 - Roma 1798), German classisictic painter (Wikipedia).
c.f. schinkel - Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Neuruppin 1781 - Berlin 1841), German architect (Wikipedia).
andr. schlueter - Andreas Schlüter (1659/64-1714), Prussian architect and sculptor (Wikipedia).
c.f. gauss - Carl Friedrich Gauß (Braunschweig 1777 - Göttingen 1855), German mathematician and scientist (Wikipedia).
just. v. liebig - Justus von Liebig (Darmstadt 1803-München 1873), German chemist, made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry (Wikipedia).

Annotation

The museum was built 1874-75 after designs by the architect by Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann.

Hamburg - Porträts von Schriftsteller, Künstler, Wissenschaftler, Historiker, Architekten usw.

Sculptor

Unknown artist. Do you know who the sculptor is? please let us know.

Locatie (N 53°33'4" - E 10°0'33") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: dehh027; Photograph: 5 March 2015
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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