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Märchen- oder Schauspielhaus-Brunnen

Fairy Tales or Playhouse Fountain

Friedrich Christoph Hausmann
1910

Frankfurt am Main / Märchen- oder Schauspielhaus-Brunnen

Description

A nymph of white Tyrolean marble sitz on the fountain column, she is popularly called 'Mainweibchen' (Little Lady of the Main). At the base of the column four a lizard, a turtle, a unknown creature and a crocodile spout water. On the edge of the fountain basin sit two bronze putti with water-breathing mythical creatures spouting water.

Frankfurt am Main - Märchen- oder Schauspielhaus-Brunnen

Signature

f. hausmann 1910

Annotation

Model for the nymph was 19-year-old Margarete Endres a laundress from Niederrad, later the wife of musician Eduard Gelbart. The bronze parts were molten down in World War II. They were reconstructed with the help of old photos in 2006.

Sculptor

Friedrich Christoph Hausmann (Wien 1860 - Bad Soden am Taunus 1936), Austrian-German sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Frankfurt, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Innenstadt.
Wikipedia, Liste von Brunnen in Frankfurt am Main.
Wikipedia, Frankfurter Märchenbrunnen.
Wikipedia, Wallanlagen (Frankfurt am Main).

Location (N 50°6'30" - E 8°40'22")

Item Code: dehs211; Photograph: 28 September 2014
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