The Rosselenker (Bremen)

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The Rosselenker
The Rosselenker

The Rosselenker is a bronze group of sculptures by Louis Tuaillon , which was set up in 1902 in the ramparts ( Bremen - Mitte ). It is a listed building.

history

Franz Ernst Schütte , a German merchant and oil importer and an important patron of the city of Bremen, donated the free sculpture at the Bischofstor below the Theaterberg. The Berlin sculptor Louis Tuaillon, who lives in Rome, created the model for the sculpture . In 1901 the bronze was cast by R. Polzoni, Rome. The bronze group stands on a masonry base clad with bronze plates.

During the Second World War the bronze group was in the Kunsthalle and from 1951 to 1953 in the Übersee-Museum . It has been at the old location again since 1953. When the new pedestrian bridge over the city moat was built in 1955, the young man with the noble horse was merely moved a little. Significant damage to the bronze caused by the defective and patched cast had to be repaired in the 1930s and 1980s, and in 1986 a thick-walled cast of the original was made, which has since been permanently displayed in the original location.

The Kaiser Friedrich monument from 1905 in Bremen also came from Tuaillon .

The Rosselenker is under Bremen monument protection (see list of cultural monuments in Bremen-Mitte )

Meaning and style

In mythology , the rose driver stood for reason, the horses here for the instincts that require guidance. Homer designated in the 8th century BC. In the Odyssey the wise and old Nestor as the rose-handlebar. Plato stated that "the soul is like the combined strength of a team of winged horses and its driver".

The Bremen group of figures is one of a small number of outstanding neoclassical sculptures in Bremen, including Touaillon's Kaiser Friedrich Monument from 1905, Adolf von Hildebrand's Bismarck Monument and Hermann Hahn's Moltke Monument , both from 1910. Her classicism is less based on a formulaic takeover of motifs from Greek sculpture than on the goal of reproducing dignity, measure, and balance in expression and posture. “ The bourgeois polis , the discipline of the bourgeois way of life ” has been seen expressed in this formal ideal.

Rosselenker as a motif for a sculpture in public space were and can also be found in Munich (1928), in Saint Petersburg ( German Embassy , 1912/14) and in Nordpark Düsseldorf .

literature

  • Beate Mielsch: Monuments, open sculptures, fountains in Bremen 1800–1945. Bremen 1980, pp. 33f., 57. ISBN 3-921749-16-6 .
  • Herbert Albrecht: Bremer Buildings and Monuments , Bremen 1979, pp. 132–135.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ↑ Stefan Dammann: Bremen at that time: The rose handlebar made of paper mache . In: Weser-Kurier from November 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ The original has been stored by the preservation authorities since 1986. Weser-Kurier dated May 14, 1986.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Röd: The way of philosophy from the beginnings to the 20th century . CHBeck , Munich 2009.
  5. ↑ Albrecht, p. 135

Web links

Commons : Der Rosselenker, Bremen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 49.7 ″  E