Agamemnon (sculpture, Bremen)
The Agamemnon sculpture is located in Bremen - in the center of the inner courtyard of the BLG headquarters on President-Kennedy-Platz . It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .
The life-size bronze sculpture from 2003 comes from the sculptor Waldemar Otto and was erected in 2009 on behalf of the BLG Logistics Group to honor the Bremen entrepreneur Egon H. Harms.
Egon Herbert Harms (1927–2006) was a successful entrepreneur from Bremen. At the end of the 1950s, he founded the logistics and service company EH Harms Automobile Logistics in Bremen , which became one of the largest, internationally active German car forwarding companies. BLG has been involved in the Harms Group since 2002 and has taken over the management of the company. Harms was also characterized by a high level of social commitment. In 1990 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.
Agamemnon ( ancient Greek Ἀγαμέμνων , "very energetic") was king of Mycenae and conqueror of Troy in the Trojan War in Greek mythology . The Senator for Culture remarked in his list Art in Public Space Bremen : "With the title of the sculpture the artist compares ... Harms with Agamemnon, who was also a good and courageous entrepreneur and who pursued his goals tenaciously and persistently." The Iliad from But Homer sometimes portrays Agamemnon as arrogant and selfish.
From Otto came from Bremen a. a. still encounter (1976) in Vegesack , the sculpture to film (1983) in Gröpelingen , Big Hephaestus II (1991) in Schwachhausen , G Rosser Bacchus II (1992) in Hemelingen and the Fountain of Neptune (1993) on the Domshof .
Picture gallery
Rear view
Inner courtyard of the BLG head office
Detail: badge
Detail: sculpture foot
Detail: artist's signature
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 34.9 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 56.2" E