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Johann Sebastian Bach (Altes Bach-Denkmal)

Johann Sebastian Bach (Old Bach Monument)

Eisenach 1685 - Leipzig 1750
German composer and musician of the Baroque period
(Wikipedia)
Hermann Knaur & Julius Hübner
1843

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Description

Three-and-a-half-metre-high Pirna sandstone column with a three-part structure: a smooth octagonal base, a central section from clustered and free-standing columns, topped by a tabernacle-like top with four reliefs: an almost fully sculptured bust of Bach at the front ans on the other sides reliefs depicting various areas of Bach's work in figure scenes with long-robed female winged beings (genii): performing artist, composer, and teacher and cantor. The monument site is covered with small paving and is enclosed by an ornamental lattice.

Leipzig - Johann Sebastian Bach (Altes Bach-Denkmal)
North side: Bach bust.
Leipzig - Johann Sebastian Bach (Altes Bach-Denkmal)
East side: performing artist, especially organist
Leipzig - Johann Sebastian Bach (Altes Bach-Denkmal)
South side: composer, especially for church music
Leipzig - Johann Sebastian Bach (Altes Bach-Denkmal)
West side: teacher and cantor

The monument was designed by the painter Eduard Bendemann in Dresden, a friendn of Mendelssohn. Advisors were the painter Julius Hübner and the sculptor Ernst Rietschel. After Bendemann's retirement due to illness, the artistic and practical realisation was then the sole responsibility of Julius Hübner. The execution was entrusted to the stonemason Friedrich Moritz Hiller in Dresden-Antonstadt. The sculptor Hermann Knaur, a pupil of Ernst Rietschel, created the figurative representations. For the bust of the composer, Knaur apparently followed the portrait of Bach painted by Elias Gottlob Haußmann in 1746 (then owned by the Thomasschule in Leipzig).

Information Sign

DAS ÄLTESTE DENKMAL FÜR
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
WURDE IM JAHRE 1843
GESTIFTET VON
FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY
restauriert 2005
rotary club leipzig
stadt leipzig
The oldest monument for
Johann Sebastian Bach
was in 1843
founded by
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Restored 2005
Rotary Club Leipzig
City of Leipzig

Sculptors

Sources & Information

Tags

  • Country: Germany
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Composer
  • Genius
  • Hübner, Julius
  • Knaur, Hermann
  • Organist
  • Teacher
  • Locatie (N 51°20'19" - E 12°22'17") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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