List of works by Karl Mertens

The list of works by Karl Mertens is, without claiming to be exhaustive, a list of works by the visual artist Karl Mertens .

Karl Mertens created over one hundred figures, monuments, reliefs and other art objects both for public spaces in cities and communities, especially in Havelland, and for private clients, most of which still exist.

Register of locations : (small sculpture)  • Brandenburg an der Havel  • Friesack  • Großwudicke  • Horst (Heiligengrabe)  • Kirchmöser  • Premnitz  • Rathenow

Small plastic
object	material	date	Location	image
Don Quixote with his horse Rosinante	Wood	around 1924
Sancho Panza with Rosinante	Wood	around 1924
Sculpture zest for life	Wood	1939
Sculpture emergency group	Wood		originally in the Rathenow Museum
Gospel candlesticks	Wood		church commissioned work
Relief Rathenower rubble women	Wood		originally in the city council
Glass press in front of the oven	Wood		originally in the Rathenow Museum, now the Karl Mertens Art Association
Wood relief for Edwin Rolf	Wood	1947
Bas-relief Anton Semjonowitsch Makarenko	Wood		originally in the Rathenow apprentice home
Bas-relief folk dance	Wood		Gift of the council of the district and the council of Rathenow to the state singing and dance ensemble of the North Ossetian ASSR
Rathenow
object	material	date	Location	image
The abortion boy (also: brick boy )	bronze		formerly in front of the post office, now on August-Bebel-Platz
The torchbearer	bronze	1957	in front of the school "Am Weinberg", Schleusenstraße
The dancer	bronze		in the culture house
The flute player	bronze		in the culture house
sgraffito	Plaster		on the facade of the “Regenbogen” day care center, forest road
Two relief panels	stone		Kita “kleine Philosophen”, on the forecourt of the building, on the right on a free-standing wall built for this purpose, Philosophenweg
sgraffito	Plaster		at the entrance of the day care center “Haus der kleine Strolche”, Große Milower Straße 1
Relief plate Ludwig van Beethoven			in the stairwell of the music school, Mühlenhof (entrance to the Optikpark)
Relief plate of the glasses maker coat of arms	bronze		Jahnstrasse 27, at the entrance to the Duncker industrial park (wood copy of the original in bronze.)
Bust of Johann Sebastian Bach			Mühlenhof
Three-wing relief The good of nature	stone		free-standing on the premises of the DMC Deutsche Milchcafe
Relief plate Paracelsus	bronze		in the vestibule of the Havelland Clinics - Rathenow Clinic, main entrance Forststraße
four-part openwork relief wall	red sandstone		in front of the school in the old town, Platz der Jugend, on the site of the birthplace of Karl Mertens
Bust of Karl Marx	bronze		Karl-Marx-Platz
sundial			on a residential building, Burgstrasse
Bust of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn		1956	Sports field on the Schwedendamm
The kneeling	bronze	1975	earlier at the market, now in front of the swimming pool
Commemorative plaque for the Rathenow officers in the Schill Freikorps Karl Friedrich von Trachenberg and Adolf von Keller		1953	formerly in the stairwell of the district building, disappeared since 1990
Ballet Dancers	Stone relief		Karl Mertens Art Association
Close and distant vision - optics landmarks	model		Whereabouts unknown
Premnitz
object	material	date	Location	image
Memorial for the victims among the forced laborers employed in the armaments industry in Premnitz (Memorial for the victims of fascism)		1964/1965, renewed in 1974	Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse, corner of August-Bebel-Strasse
The Konerin	bronze	1965	originally in front of the new canteen of the VEB chemical fiber factory "Friedrich Engels" , now Heinrich-Heine-Straße, at the stone arch bridge
Bust of Friedrich Engels			formerly at the main entrance of the Märkische Faser-AG plant, now in Friedrich-Engels-Strasse at the health center
The handball player or seven meters	bronze		Fabrikenstrasse, in front of the sports hall at Gate II
Mosaic The beautiful laundress	Meissen color porcelain	1965	Fabrikenstrasse, at the former laundry collection point of the former cleaning company Lurette
Brandenburg on the Havel
object	material	date	Location	image
Peace (mother with child)	bronze	1962	on the Marienberg
Dove of peace		1958	on the Marienberg at the Friedenswarte (formerly Bismarckwarte, demolished)
Bust of Heinrich Heine	bronze	1960	on Heinrich-Heine-Ufer (the bust was stolen by strangers in December 2014)
Kirchmöser
object	material	date	Location	image
Bas-relief Maxim Gorky	Wood		originally in the Kulturhaus Kirchmöser
Großwudicke
object	material	date	Location	image
mosaic	Meissen color porcelain		Parkstrasse, on the facade of the Großwudicke primary school
Friesack
object	material	date	Location	image
Bust of Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin	stone		formerly in the engineering school for agricultural technology "MI Kalinin", today in the Friesack local history museum
Horst (district of Heiligengrabe )
object	material	date	Location	image
Tympanum	Brick relief		Burghof 10, above the main entrance of a building of the former technical school for animal breeding in Horst

literature

• Karl Mertens: From my life. In: Rathenower Heimatkalender 1958, pp. 30–33.
• Martin Sommerfeld: Karl Mertens (1903–1988) and his artistic life's work . In: Rathenower Heimatkalender 2014, pp. 78–87.
• Directory of monuments in the Havelland district. In: Official Journal for the Havelland District , Vol. 3, No. 10 (Special Edition 1, from October 21, 1996) ( PDF; 4.5 MB ).
• List of monuments in the Havelland district, Part I: Architectural monuments. In: Official Journal for the Havelland district , vol. 8, no. 8 (from August 6, 2001), pp. 101–152. ( PDF; 177 kB ).
• List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg, Havelland district, status: December 31, 2012 ( PDF; 238 kB ). Website of the Havelland district. Retrieved May 12, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Article by Joachim Muus on the website of the Rathenow Optics Park (temporarily offline).
2. ↑ On the importance of sculpture and the tasks of the removal boys in the brick industry, cf. the website mein-rathenow.de ( memento of the original from April 3, 2015 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. . 
3. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine from April 21, 2012.
4. ↑ Illustration in: Rathenower Heimatkalender 1958, p. 1.Cf. Monument Directory 1996 (see literature), p. 41.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Märkische Allgemeine from April 26, 2012.
6. ↑ See Duncker and the glasses makers. In: Märkische Online-Zeitung from April 11, 2014.
7. ↑ See list of monuments 1996 (see literature), p. 41.
8. ↑ As a cover picture in: Rathenower Heimatkalender 1988. See list of monuments 1996 (see literature), p. 36.
9. ↑ See list of monuments 1996 (see literature), p. 40.
10. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine from September 9, 2011.
11. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine dated December 11, 2008.
12. ↑ Illustration in: Rathenower Heimatkalender 1988, p. 5.
13. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Märkische Allgemeine of July 23, 2005.
14. ↑ See list of monuments 1996 (see literature), p. 31 (without naming names), list of monuments 2001 (see literature), p. 134.
15. ↑ On the job profile of Konerin in the textile industry, cf. Märkische Allgemeine from September 10, 2005.
16. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine of September 10, 2005.
17. ↑ See list of monuments 1996 (see literature), p. 31.
18. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine from August 25, 2006.
19. ↑ ^{a b} See the historical overview on the website of the Friedenswarte ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2015 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. . 
20. ↑ See Märkische Allgemeine from December 4, 2014 ( archive link )
21. ↑ Illustration in: Rathenower Heimatkalender 1963, p. 44.
22. ↑ See Sven Leist: Monuments in and around Friesack. Part 3 - Bust of MI Kalinin. In: Friesacker Quitzow-Kurier , No. 22 (2006) ( PDF; 206 kB )