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Rotenburg an der Fulda
Lkr. Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Hessen

Steinweg

Familienidylle

Family Idyll

Ewald Rumpf
2011

Description

Sculpture group on the Steinborn Fountain (dating from 2003), illustrating the poem:

Vor Neugier zu entdecken den jungen Hans mit Dackel Hund
Mutter Hannah mit klein Inge
und Ursul mit dem Ball schön Rund

... to discover curiously the young Hans with his Dachshund
Mother Hannah, with little Inge
and Ursul with the ball nicely round

Reading Boy, a boy reading a book lying on his back with his head on a pile of books, with a dog.
Girl with ball, a little girl playing with a ball.
Mother and child, a mother sitting on the basin edge, letting her daughter stand on the edge.

The group is based on a poem by Marlies Ebeling, the wife of the donator of this sculpture group.

Nine-year old Nils Neumeyer from Bad Hersfeld was the model for the reading boy.

Inscription(s)

On the cover of the book under the boy's head:

ewald
rumpf
2011
lesender
knabe

On the cover of the book the boy is reading:

grie-
chische
mythologie
2011

On the pages of the book the boy is reading:

gaia
uranos
eros
thanatos
nyx

zeus
hera
poseidon
hades
ares
aphrodite
apollon
artemis

Sculptor

Ewald Rumpf (Posen 1943), German sculptor from Remsfeld, Hessen (Website).

Sources & Information

Rotenburg an der Fulda, Skulpturenpfad.
Mittleres Fuldatal, Auf bronzenen Spuren durch Rotenburg a. d. Fulda.
Hessisch/Niedersächsische Allgemeine, 13 Dec. 2011, Fünf neue Bronzefiguren schmücken das Stadtbild Rotenburgs.

Locatie (N 50°59'50" - E 9°43'49") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: dehs136; Photograph: 7 August 2013
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