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Herdecke
Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis
Nordrhein-Westfalen

Hauptstraße 54

Bauern, Arbeiter und Nachtwächter

Farmers, Workers and a Nightwatch

Friedrich Bagdons
1928

Herdecke / Bauern, Arbeiter und Nachtwächter

Description

Two sandstone sculptures on the northwest and northeast corner of the house Hauptstraße 54, showing respectively a farmer's couple harvesting grain and two workers (stonemasons or carpenters). A third sculpture, on the southwest corner, shows a nightwatch with a horn in his hand and a dog at his feet.

Herdecke - Bauern, Arbeiter und Nachtwächter
Stonemasons or carpenters
Harvesting farmers
Nightwatch.

Sculptor

Friedrich Bagdons (Kowarren, Ostpreußen, 1878 - Dortmund 1937 ), German sculptor of Dortmund (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikimedia Commons, File:Herdecke, Hauptstraße 54.jpg.
Lokalkompass, 30 April 2020, Hungerlohn für den Nachtwächter: Nebenjob reichte für Kriegsinvaliden gerade so zum Überleben.

Locatie (N 51°23'59" - E 7°25'58") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw994; Photograph: 31 July 2022
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