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Die Hochzeitstänzer oder Aldegrever-Brunnen

The Wedding Dancers or Aldegrever Fountain

Heinrich Aldengrever
Paderborn 1502 - Soest 1555/61
German painter and engraver
(Wikipedia)

Kord Winter
1989

Soest / Die Hochzeitstänzer <i>oder</i> Aldegrever-Brunnen

Description

Scupture group on a stone column showing a scene after a print of the engraver and renaissance painter Heinrich Aldegrever from the series the wedding dancers: two flutists and a trombonist. On the baseplate the monogram AG = Heinrich Aldengrever. Around de column is a fountain basin with a dolphin spouting water.

Inscription(s)

ALDEGREVER BRUNNEN
9.8.1989 kord winter
gestiftet von der
sparkasse
soest

Signature

monogram 10.6.89

Sculptor

Kord Winter (Dortmund 1954), German sculptor from Soest-Ampen.

Sources & Information

Stadt Soest, Skulpturenverzeichnis.
Wikipedia, Aldegrever-Brunnen.
Evangelischer St. Petri-Pauli Kirchengemeinde Soest, Gemeindebrief 35, Advent 2018 (PDF on-line).

Locatie (N 51°34'16" - E 8°6'26") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw684; Photograph: 15 October 2018
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