Amazon on Horseback (Kiss)

Amazon on horseback in front of the Altes Museum

Amazone on horseback , also fighting Amazon or simply Amazon , is a bronze sculpture by the German sculptor August Kiß .

It shows an amazon on a rearing horse who tries to fight a panther with a lance while the panther is jumping into the horse's throat . The sculpture was made in 1842 and placed on the eastern stringer of the staircase leading to the Lustgarten of the Altes Museum in Berlin . On the western Treppenwange the sculpture is lion fighters of Albert Wolff that the counterpart to the Amazon on horseback forms. Both groups of figures weigh about two to three tons each .

literature

• The Amazon group of Kiss . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 14 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig September 30, 1843, p. 217-218 ( books.google.de ).

See also

• Amazon on Horseback (Tuaillon) , bronze statue of Amazon on Horseback in the colonnade courtyard on Museum Island Berlin

Web links

Commons : Amazone on Horses (Berlin, Altes Museum)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bronzes Amazone and Lion Fighters, National Museums in Berlin. (PDF) Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '9.9 "  N , 13 ° 23' 56"  E