Amazon on Horseback (Tuaillon)

Amazon on horseback , in front of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin

Amazone on Horseback is a bronze sculpture by the German sculptor Louis Tuaillon , which is located in Berlin on Museum Island . A young Amazon rides a horse and holds a battle ax in her right hand.

Since the New Museum reopened , the statue has been in the colonnaded courtyard , which is formed by the New Museum, the Pergamon Museum and the Old National Gallery . Before that, the sculpture was in the eastern front garden of the Alte Nationalgalerie. It is one of the three original sculptures of the colonnade courtyard that can still be seen there today.

history

Louis Tuaillon (1862–1919) created the life-size bronze sculpture in Rome between 1890 and 1895 . The work was a surprise at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1895 and instantly made Tuaillon famous. The National Gallery bought it and installed it in 1898. In 1903 the plastic was used to make molds and reductions, and later also casts. In 1905 the German Emperor Wilhelm II had a larger-than-life cast made (3 m long, 1.50 m wide and 5.50 m high) and set it up in Berlin's Tiergarten Park . Later, women from East Prussia gave the exiled imperial couple a scaled-down cast of the statue for their garden in Haus Doorn , where it still stands today.

gallery

In the Tiergarten
Berlin-Tiergarten
In the National Gallery in
Berlin-Mitte
At the Doorn House at
Utrechtse Heuvelrug

literature

Eva Börsch-Supan , Helmut Börsch-Supan , Günther Kühne: Art Guide Berlin. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Ditzingen 1991, ISBN 3-15-010366-5 .