Monuments in the Böttcherstraße

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The monuments in Böttcherstraße in Bremen - Mitte , in and near the 100 m long Böttcherstraße in Bremen's old town, are listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen and the list of fountains in the city of Bremen .

Sculptures, reliefs, fountains and panel paintings

  • Eve on the swan

  • youth

  • Female torso

  • Eve

  • dusk

  • Jug bearer

  • Panther

  • Silver lion

  • Ludwig Roselius

  • girl

  • The moor woman

  • Bacchus

  • The doctor Paracelsus

  • boy

  • Seven Lazy Fountain

Around 17 sculptures, three reliefs, the fountain and the panel paintings are located on Böttcherstraße. They date from the period from 1906 to 1936 by the expressionist architect and sculptor Bernhard Hoetger (1874–1949). In 1926/27 he planned the Paula-Becker-Modersohn-Haus in Böttcherstraße, which today houses the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum with the extensive collection of paintings by the artist and the Hoetger collection. He designed the exhibition house with sales room artistically with numerous sculptures. In the courtyard of the house, in the craftsmen's yard, he created the seven lazy fountain and the workshops for artisans.

In cultural policy towards fighting the Nazis continued in the "Nordic" Expressionism dispute the Ideological officers Hitler, Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg , who is against " degenerate art pronounced" against the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels by. In 1936, Adolf Hitler sharply attacked the art of Böttcherstrasse at the Nuremberg Rally : “We have nothing to do with those elements that only know National Socialism from hearing and saying it and therefore confuse it only too easily with indefinable Nordic phrases and the now Their motive research begins in some fabulous Atlantic culture. National Socialism strongly rejects this type of Böttcherstrasse culture. "

At Hitler's express request, Böttcherstraße was placed under monument protection as an example of “degenerate art” so that the “buildings on Böttcherstraße would like to be preserved for posterity as a daunting example of what was presented as culture and architecture in the time before we came to power. “Hoetger was expelled from the NSDAP in 1938 and he emigrated to Switzerland.

The temporally arranged sculptures, wall reliefs and the fountain:

  • Bremen state coat of arms , relief from 1608
  • Eva on the swan , 1906 by Hoetger made of bronze on the terrace of the Paula-Becker-Modersohn house.
  • Youth , 1909 by Hoetger from bronze in the Hoetger-Hof.
  • Female torso , made in bronze by Hoetger in 1909 in the Hoetger-Hof
  • The day , 1910 by Hoetger, cast stone cast
  • The evening , 1911 by Hoetger made of bronze in the Hoetger-Hof.
  • Dusk , 1912 by Hoetger in bronze in the Hoetger-Hof.
  • Krugträgerin , 1912 by Hoetger from Gussstein in the street Hinter dem Schütting .
  • Madonna, mother and child , made in bronze by Hoetger in 1912 at the entrance to the Paula-Becker-Modersohn-Haus.
  • Panther, bearing the night , 1912 by Hoetger made of bronze.
  • Silver lion, bearing the day , 1912 by Hoetger made of bronze.
  • Ludwig Roselius bust , made in bronze by Hoetger in 1922 in the craftsmen's yard. Ludwig Roselius (1874–1943) was a Bremen coffee merchant and founder of the Kaffee HAG company; as a patron he promoted artists like Paula Modersohn-Becker and Hoetger and he built the Böttcherstraße as a work of art.
  • Girl's head , made in bronze by Hoetger in 1924 in the stairway to the Paula-Becker-Modersohn-Haus.
  • Moorfrau , 1924 by Hoetger in bronze on the terrace of the Paula-Becker-Modersohn house.
  • Bacchus , 1928 by Hoetger in bronze in the Hoetger-Hof; Bacchus , god of wine in Greek mythology .
  • The Robinson cycle from 1930/1954 with six large-format wooden panels in the stairwell of the Robinson Crusoe House , carved by Theodor Schultz-Walbaum : Motifs from the life of Robinson Crusoe from the novel by Daniel Defoe .
  • The Ocean Conquerors , 1930, reliefs by Hoetger and Victor Kopytko on ten panels at the House of the Glockenspiel
  • Head of Paracelsus , 1936 by Hoetger made of bronze; Paracelsus (1493–1541) was an important universal doctor, alchemist, astrologer, mystic, lay theologian and philosopher at the beginning of modern times.
  • Looking boy , made in bronze by Hoetger in 1936 on the terrace of the Paula-Becker-Modersohn house.
  • Schreitende , 1936 by Hoetger made of bronze on the terrace of the Paula-Becker-Modersohn house.
  • The Bringer of Light was made in 1936 by Hoetger as a gilded facade relief (square: 383 × 383 cm) made of bronze above the entrance to the market on Böttcherstraße. A curly, sword-holding, unclothed youth fends off a three-headed serpent or dragon. Suggested wings can also be interpreted as a waving cape. The lightbringer covered the lower part of the Hoetger clinker relief from around 1927, which the Nazi rulers had been heavily criticizing since 1933. After the Second World War, the figure was mainly issued as Archangel Michael .
  • Sieben-Lazy Fountain , designed by Hoetger in 1930, the brick fountain was made by ceramist Otto Meier , the bronze sculptures by Hoetger. The legend of the seven lazy people was published by the Bremen folk tale writer Friedrich Wagenfeld (1810–1846) in 1845, according to which seven sons of a poor farmer went out into the world and came back with innovative, rationalizing and labor-saving ideas that they implemented. The envious neighbors only said: 'They are just too lazy to work'.

Hoetger works

Hoetger also produced a number of works that are in Worpswede with its artists' colony in Worpswede , such as the Niedersachsenstein (1922), the Bonze des Humors (1914) and numerous sculptures in the Hoetger garden near his former, burned-down Brunnenhof house .
In addition, there are u. a. Works by him in Bad Harzburg , Darmstadt, Hanover, Hörde and Leipzig.

All of the Hoetger works listed above are listed.
The cultural authority describes these works by Hoetger online.

Figurative panels of the ocean conquerors

The ten wooden picture panels from 1930 of the Ocean Conquerors at the Haus des Glockenspiels , rotating to form the carillon, are reliefs by Hoetger and Victor Kopytko. The boards are only visible when the carillon plays every hour on the hour from April 1st to December 31st between 12:00 and 18:00 and from January 1st to March 31st at 12:00, 15:00 and 18:00.

Eriksson, Karlsefni Pining, Pothorst Columbus Fulton king Scott, Brown, Alcock Lindbergh Köhl, Fitzmaurice, Baron von Hünefeldt Count Zeppelin, Eckener Earth, moon, stars, space
  1. Leif Eriksson and Thorfinn Karlsefni , Icelandic sailors around 1010, first discoverers of North America and Greenland
  2. Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst , German explorers a. a. Newfoundland around 1473/76
  3. Christopher Columbus (~ 1451–1506), Italian explorer of America
  4. Robert Fulton (1765–1815), US engineer who built the first steamship
  5. Paul König (1887–1933), 1916/17 German captain of a commercial submarine .
  6. Brown and Alcock , British pilots, first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919 ; and Scott , British airship pilot , first airship Atlantic crossing in 1919
  7. Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), US pilot, first crossing the Atlantic from west to east in 1927
  8. Köhl , Fitzmaurice , Freiherr von Hünefeld , 1928 first Atlantic crossing from east to west
  9. Graf von Zeppelin , Hugo Eckener , German airship designers
  10. Earth, moon, stars and space as well as a hand and footprints and the text: “Leif Erikson: ..You only know knowledge. You do not know the will hot impulse, which gives birth to knowledge. "

Web links, literature

Commons : Böttcherstraße  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Bernhard Hoetger  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Confidential report to the senators from Lord Mayor Heider, 1936, State Archives Bremen, quoted in after Golücke, pp. 98 and 127, note 20.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Hoetger. k: art in public space bremen, accessed on April 13, 2018 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 30 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 20 ″  E