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Fassadenskulpturen an der Ausstellungsgebäude

Façade sculptures at the Ausstellungsgebäude

1887/94

Dresden / Fassadenskulpturen an der Ausstellungsgebäude

Description

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Christian Daniel Rauch

Peter von Cornelius

The entrance side (Brühlsche Terrasse) has two sandstone statues in niches, showing:

left: Christian Daniel Rauch (Arolsen, Hessen, 1777-Dresden 1857), one of the most important sculptors of the German classicism (RKD database – Wikipedia).
right: Peter von Cornelius (Düsseldorf 1783 - Berlin 1867), German painter, first director of the Königlichen Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (Wikipedia).

(unknown)

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

and above them two medallions with relief portraits:

left: unknown
right: Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Neuruppin 1781-Berlin 1841), a Prussian architect, city planner, and painter (Wikipedia).

Drawing

Faith

Music

The façade facing the Georg-Treu-Platz has three statues in niches with reliefs aboven them, from left to right:

Drawing, figure with drawing book.
Faith, figure with cross.
Music, figure with lyra.

On the top of the entrance side a central sculpture group "Saxonia, die Beschützerin der Künste" and the personification of Dresden and Elbe. On the sides allegorical figures of the towns Berlin, München, Wien and Düsseldorf. The cupola has a gilded Fama by Robert Henze.

Annotation

Built 1894/95, architect Konstantin Lipsius.

Sources & Information

Stadt- und Reiseführer für Dresden und Umland, Landeshauptstadt Dresden.
Schwarzaufweiss Reisemagaziin, Kunstausstellungsgebäude (Lipsius-Bau).

Location (N 51°3'9" - E 13°44'36")

Item Code: desn007; Photograph: 21 January 2011
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