Father Rhine and his daughters
The fountain sculpture "Father Rhine and his daughters" in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk was created by the sculptors Karl Janssen and Josef Tüshaus and unveiled on March 7, 1897. The monument is located in front of the Ständehaus on an exedra that protrudes into a body of water, the Kaiserteich .
history
The neo-baroque monument, rooted in romanticism , historicism and Wilhelminism, owes its creation to the festival that the Rhenish estates held on September 18, 1884 for Kaiser Wilhelm I and Empress Augusta . The system was initially built as interior decoration in plaster. Due to the great popularity of the population, a bronze casting was commissioned a few years later. On March 7, 1897, the monument was finally erected as an ornamental fountain in front of the Ständehaus. Due to the romantically transfigured references to the Rhine and its legends, the object is one of the testimonies of Rhine romanticism .
description
The bronze sculpture depicts the " father " Rhine on a rock, surrounded by four ideal female figures and playing putti . At your feet is the dragon that guards the Rhine gold, the Nibelung treasure , symbolized here by the imperial crown and sword . The allegorical female figures, the "daughters", personify tributaries of the Rhine, two also embody painting and industry, with which the sculptors alluded to the artistic importance of the Rhine Province, in particular to the Düsseldorf School of Painting , and the importance of the emerging industries on the Rhine and Ruhr . On the back of the monument there are pictures of agriculture, viticulture and fishing. The base shows fish and mussels spouting water and stands in a water basin made of light granite.
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 74, [Fig. 47].
Web links
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 0.9 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 26.4 ″ E