The Nubian woman

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The Nubian woman , side view
The Nubian woman , frontal view

The Nubierin (also The Water Carrier or Striding Water Carrier ) is a bronze statue by the sculptor Bernhard Sopher . The figure shows a naked Nubian woman in a striding position. She carries a vase on her head. The arms are bent, the outer sides of the hands are placed on the hips.

The sculpture, created in 1925, was set up in 1928 in the garden parterre Rheingärtchen south of the Düsseldorf Rheinterrasse in an oval water basin , after the site, which had previously served the Great Exhibition Düsseldorf 1926 for Health Care, Social Welfare and Physical Exercise (GeSoLei) , as a permanent green area according to drafts the garden architects Walter von Engelhardt and Johann Heinrich Küchler (1888–1984) had been prepared. The small-scale flower garden with alternating flowers, located on a viewing terrace on the Rhine , was intended by its creators as a “place of rest and leisure” and is intended to be reminiscent of a “cozy home garden”.

In 1938 the statue was officially defamed as " degenerate ". It was dismantled and should be melted down after the Düsseldorf Art Collection, headed by Hans Wilhelm Hupp, wrote in a letter dated February 5, 1937 Sopher as a "non- Aryan " banned from the profession and his works at the art museum and in the garden on the Rheinterrasse were therefore considered questionable had indicated. Sopher, who was banned from working because of his Jewish origins in 1934, emigrated to the USA in 1935. His wife was able to save the sculpture from destruction by buying it back. She made them available to the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf after the Second World War . In 1954 the Nubian woman returned to the garden ground floor on the banks of the Rhine, her original location.

The knuckle player was also set up in the “Rheingärtchen” . This sculpture from the work phase of a seated female figure is a 1961 sandstone copy of an original by Hermann Isenmann that Bernhard Sopher made in bronze in 1926 and is now in the collection of the Folkwang Museum in Essen.

Web links

Commons : Wasserträgerin (Bernhard Sopher)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gartenamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf: Rheingärtchen , article in the portal duesseldorf.de , accessed on February 15, 2018
  2. ↑ Rheingärtchen ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article in the portal duesseldorf-tourismus.de , accessed on September 23, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duesseldorf-tourismus.de
  3. ↑ Rolf Purpar: art city Dusseldorf. Objects and monuments in the cityscape . 2nd Edition. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 3-89978-044-2 , p. 98.
  4. ↑ Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf: Knieende Wasserträgerin , article in the portal duesseldorf.de , accessed on November 21, 2012
  5. ↑ The Knuckle Player  in the German Digital Library , accessed on January 12, 2013

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 16.6 ″  E