Diana (Felderhoff)

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Diana in the Kolonnadenhof on Museum Island in Berlin

The Diana of Reinhold Felderhoff is a 1.74  meter high bronze statue of the goddess of hunting Diana , the only highly bound sandals clothed and just a quiver invests. The original can be seen in the colonnaded courtyard between the New Museum and the Old National Gallery on Museum Island in Berlin .

history

The figure was first exhibited as a statuette at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1898 . It was also shown at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900. 1910 was then the foundry Noack the plastic of bronze cast and the National Gallery bought. Subsequently, according to a source in 1929, a permanent loan agreement was concluded with the mayor of the city of Schleswig or, according to another source, in 1934 with the regional president of the province of Schleswig-Holstein . Until 2009 Diana was opposite the OLG Schleswig . Since then it has been installed in the Kolonnadenhof on Museum Island Berlin.

Replicas

A two and a half meter high replica , also made by the Noack foundry, was set up in 1927 in the Small Pleasure Garden in Elbing , Reinhold Felderhoff's birth town. Under unexplained circumstances, this version of the Diana came into the possession of Hermann Göring , who had it installed in his Carinhall estate . After the Second World War , the large bronze was kept in the Spandau Citadel . In 1963 it was moved to its current location in Wröhmännerpark in Berlin-Spandau .

A slightly reduced replica of marble was created in 1917 and exhibited in the National Gallery from 1918 to 1928. It was bought by the city of Brandenburg an der Havel and is now in the theater park .

Web links

Commons : Diana (Felderhoff)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sculptures of the Kolonnadenhof on the website of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, accessed on May 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Diana now adorns Museum Island. Schleswiger Nachrichten, accessed on May 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Diana, the goddess of the hunt, is now being cleaned. Berliner Zeitung, accessed on May 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ Monuments and sights in Elbing (No. 12) on www.aefl.de, accessed on May 9, 2016.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '12.4 "  N , 13 ° 23' 55.3"  E