Cornucopia (sculpture)
The sculpture Cornucopia stands in Bremen - Schwachhausen in front of the main entrance of the Focke Museum . It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .
The bronze sculpture from 1985 was made by the Bremen sculptor Paul Halbhuber . In Bremen he also made the fountain sculpture (1958) in Hemelingen , the young man with a topping-out wreath (1958) in Walle , the Neptune (1958) in front of the Bremen Seafaring School in Neustadt , a relief frieze (1963) from Obernkirchen sandstone on the house on the market on Bremen's market square , the wind rose (1966) on the Wilhelm-Kaisen-Brücke (1966) and the Pieperbrunnen (1977) in Mitte .
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The mythological cornucopia (horn of the nymph Amaltheia ) is a reference to the rich holdings of the Focke Museum, Bremen's state museum for art and cultural history in the Bremen district of Riensberg in the museum in the park with the new building from 1953. The former commercial museum complement each other , the Historical Museum, Haus Riensberg, the Eichenhof, Haus Mittelbüren, the Tarmstedter Scheune and the new show magazine. The cornucopia, a bag-shaped wicker basket, used to serve primarily as a container for the grape harvest .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 31.2 ″ N , 8 ° 51 ′ 49 ″ E