Nikisch memorial stone
The Nikisch memorial stone in Leipzig is a memorial at the place where the conductor Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922) lived for the last fourteen years of his life.
history
When the Märchenhaus on today's Nikischplatz was completed in 1907 (address Thomasiusstraße 28), the Gewandhaus Kapellmeister Arthur Nikisch was one of his first tenants. He moved into a comfortable apartment of over 300 m² on the third floor. He lived here until his death in 1922. In the same year the place was named.
The fairy tale house (around 1910)
Nikisch in his apartment (around 1915)
The fairytale house was destroyed in World War II and a prefabricated building was erected in its place at the end of the 1980s . At the place of the previous no.28, the new building is no.32.
According to a decision of the Leipzig city council in 1993, the erection of house and memorial plaques should be promoted. Since a Nikisch memorial plaque on the new building would have been unsuitable, a memorial stone was erected in front of the house instead, creating a reference to the former apartment. It was inaugurated on January 23, 1997, the 75th anniversary of Arthur Nikisch's death.
description
The Nikisch memorial stone in front of the house at Thomasiusstrasse 32 is a 1.42 m high square column made of granite , which has a bronze plaque with an inscription at its upper end on the front and back .
On the front it says:
- In the no longer preserved house | Thomasiusstrasse 28 | lived during the last years of his life | the famous conductor, | Kapellmeister at the Leipzig City Theater | and Leipzig Gewandhaus Kapellmeister | ARTHUR NIKISCH | born October 12th, 1855 died February 23rd, 1922
The back is decorated with a commendatory toast by Franz Liszt for Arthur Nikisch from 1885:
- “To the good of the chosen one | among the elect ”| Franz Liszt in Arthur Nikisch 1885
The design of the monument comes from the Leipzig graphic artist Harald Alff (* 1963). The manufacturing company was the bronze picture foundry Noack .
literature
- Markus Cottin, Gina Klank, Karl-Heinz Kretzschmar, Dieter Kürschner, Ilona Petzold: Leipzig monuments . Sax-Verlag Beucha 1998, ISBN 3-930076-71-3 , Volume 1, p. 53
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historic address books Leipzig from 1908. Retrieved on June 2, 2020 .
- ^ Künstlerhaus and Nikischplatz . Special edition of the Leipziger Blätter 2016, pp. 24–27