Liszt Monument Weimar
The Liszt Memorial in Weimar , not far from the Liszt House Weimar in the Park on the Ilm , was unveiled in 1902.
The life-size statue of Franz Liszt placed in the middle is made of white Carrara marble and was created by the Munich sculptor Hermann Hahn . The statue in contemporary costume and in a realistic manner with a rolled sheet of music in the left hand stands with angled arm on a pedestal , the front of which is decorated with a wreath. It is framed by a semicircular pedestal made of colored natural stone mosaic paving, in which two stone benches are attached. These consist of yellowish-white Jurassic limestone with fossil remains. In front of it there is a plateau made of colored natural stone. The facility is reminiscent of the Pompeian Bank in the Ilmpark , which was created over a century earlier.
The line of sight between the monument and the Liszthaus is somewhat impaired by the Soviet cemetery of honor in Ilmpark .
In 1976 the bust of the Hungarian national poet Sándor Petőfi was put up near the Liszt monument. Mór Jókai , who was a friend of Petőfi, wrote about him posthumously the ballad of The Dead Poet's Love , which was set to music by Franz Liszt . The poem describes the dead Petőfi, who finds no rest in the grave and leaves his loved ones no rest.
Web links
- The Liszt monument on wimare.de
- The Liszt monument on thueringen-tourismus.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Art .: Liszt monument , in: Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 280 f. ISBN 978-3-412-20057-2
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 27.7 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 56.2 ″ E