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Frankfurt am Main
Stadt Frankfurt am Main
Hessen

Taunusanlage

Heine-Denkmal

Heine Monument

Heinrich Heine
Düsseldorf 1797 - Paris 1856
German poet and journalist (Wikipedia)

Georg Kolbe
Noack (Leipzig)
1913

Description

Two dynamically moving bronze figures on a pedestal. A naked youth with far outstrided dance pose, with at his feet a sitting woman, her head proud averted. The sculptor was inspired by a performance of the Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) and Tamara Karsavina (1885-1878). On the base is a medallion portrait of Heine, inscribed HEINRICH | HEINE (this portrait dates from 1947, the original was lost after the monument was dismantled by the Nazis in 1933).

Frankfurt am Main - Heine-Denkmal

Signature

(sculpture) CKolbe | 13; (portrait) CK
H. NOACK | berlin - friedenau

Annotation

Inaugurated on Heine's birthday, 13 December 1913.

Sculptor

Georg Kolbe (Waldheim, Sachsen 1877 - Berlin 1947), German sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Frankfurt, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Innenstadt.
Wikipedia, Wallanlagen (Frankfurt am Main).
Ursel Berger, Georg Kolbe - Leben und Werk (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1990), p. 48, 49 and 52.

Locatie (N 50°6'42" - E 8°40'12") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: dehs215; Photograph: 28 September 2014
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