I don't have time to be tired

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I don't have time to be tired

I don't have time to be tired was a work of art by Michel Lock that was generally considered to be his major work. The group created in 1891 shows the dying Kaiser Wilhelm I sitting in an armchair with the angel of death to one side. The title refers to a saying made by Wilhelm in old age. The work of art no longer exists.

history

The group's model was shown at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1896. Lock was awarded the large gold medal by Kaiser Wilhelm II. The group was to be transferred in marble and placed in the Hohenzollern crypt church in the Berlin Cathedral, which was under construction at the time. However, Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted it to be installed in a location less frequented by the public, e.g. B. in the Palais Unter den Linden . Court building officer Albert Geyer spoke out against this location due to lack of space and suggested the Hohenzollern Museum in Monbijou Castle . After Lock's death, Franz Tübbecke (1856–1937) produced a marble version of the work on behalf of the Prussian minister of culture . In Monbijou Castle, it was finally installed in 1899 in the entrance hall of the eastern wing, room 5, which Knobelsdorf built from 1740 to 1742. The space at the Supraporte showed the cartridge with the crowned initials WRI was called henceforth "Memorial Hall of Kaiser Wilhelm the Great". This reflected the efforts of Kaiser Wilhelm II to stylize his grandfather as "the great one" and to perpetuate him in history under this name. Through the two angel figures from the mausoleum of Frederick III. in the park of Sanssouci the room also got a sacred character. After the reopening of the Hohenzollern Museum in 1927, the room was no longer included in the public tour and was used as a magazine. The work of art survived the bombing war of World War II unscathed, but was destroyed when the castle was removed.

  • Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Hall on April 15, 1944

  • Statue 1956

  • Exhibited in room 5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Lock . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 12. Leipzig 1908, p. 648.
  2. ↑ Newspaper clipping about Wilhelm I from 1938
  3. ^ Biography of Franz Tübbecke

literature

  • Thomas Kemper, Monbijou Castle, From the royal residence to the Hohenzollern Museum, Nicolaische Verlagbuchhandlung; Edition: 1st, December 2004 edition, ISBN 3894791624