The Isar raft
The Isarflößer is a memorial in Munich with a bronze sculpture by the German sculptor Fritz Koelle standing on a stone plinth . The monument is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
location
The memorial was erected in Hinterbrühl in the Thalkirchen district of Munich at the point where the raft canal leading to the raft area branches off from the Isar works canal . The city of Munich commissioned the monument for this location.
history
Koelle created the figure between 1938 and 1939 in his characteristic style of monumental worker figures. After settling after the seizure of the Nazis saw exposed to the charge of "Bolshevik view of art", is at the Isar Flößer adaptation to predetermined synthetic taste clearly be seen attempt. The sculpture was shown in 1940 as part of the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art .
literature
Denis A. Chevalley, Timm Weski: State Capital Munich - Southwest (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-584-5 , p. 300 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for Munich (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. Retrieved February 18, 2019 (monument number D-1-62-000-2658 )
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 59 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 27 ″ E