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Fassadenporträts an der Kunstakademie

Façade Portraits on the Kunstakademie

1891/95

Dresden / Fassadenporträts an der Kunstakademie

Description

Portrait medallions on the façades of the lower side extensions and on the sides of the side wings, each three portraits with names.

Eastern extensions:

Donato Bramante (1444-1514), Italian architect (Wikipedia).
unknown
Western extensions:
unknown
Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Flemish Baroque painter (Wikipedia).
(one of the unknowns is Holbein)

Eastern wing, west side:
aischylos - Aeschylus (Αισχύλος, Aiskhulos), Greek tradian (Wikipedia).
Eastern wing, east side:
sophokles - Sophocles (Σοφοκλῆς, Sophoklēs), Greek tradian (Wikipedia).
euripides - Euripides (Εὐριπίδης), Greek tradian (Wikipedia).

Western wing, east façade:
lessing - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic (Wikipedia).
Western wing, west façade:
goethe - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in Western culture (Wikipedia).
schiller - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright (Wikipedia).

On the roof several statues, which are not photographed (yet)

Annotation

Built 1894/95, architect Konstantin Lipsius.

Sources & Information

Stadt- und Reiseführer für Dresden und Umland, Landeshauptstadt Dresden.
Schwarzaufweiss Reisemagaziin, Kunstakademie.

Locatie (N 51°3'11" - E 13°44'32") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: desn008; Photograph: 21 January 2011
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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© Website and photos: René & Peter van der Krogt

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