Horse tamer
The motif of the moving horse tamers or horse tamers is often depicted in the sculpture .
An example from the Roman Empire is the pair of the Dioscuri with a horse (“horse tamer from Monte Cavallo”) on the Piazza del Quirinale in Rome ( Dioscuri fountain ).
Numerous examples can be found in the monumental sculpture of the Baroque and especially of the 19th and 20th centuries:
- Bernhard Michael Mandl (around 1660–1711), in front of the Marstallschwemme, Salzburg
- around 1746 Friedrich Christian Glume , horse tamer, Marstall , Potsdam
- 1767 Johann August Nahl , Karlsaue , Kassel
- 1842 Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg , horse tamer , gift from Tsar Nikolaus I for Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Erected in 1846 on the pleasure garden terrace of the Berlin Palace , since 1950 in Kleistpark
- 1843 Repetition of the horse tamers for the Anitschkow Bridge in St. Petersburg , installed in 1850
- 1846 Repetition of the horse tamer for the King of Naples, set up in front of the northeast corner of the Palazzo Reale in Naples
- 1844–47 Ludwig von Hofer , horse tamer, Unterer Schlosspark, Stuttgart
- 1876 Christian Genschow , horse tamer, Schlossbrücke , Schwerin
- Christian Genschow, horse tamer, Basthorst Castle
- 1882 / 1898–1901 Josef Lax , four horse tamers, Parliament building , Vienna
- 1892/93 Theodor Friedl , horse tamer, Maria-Theresien-Platz , Vienna
- 1931 Hermann Hahn , horse tamer. Sculpture Park Pinakothek, Munich
- 1934 Joseph Wackerle , Rossebändiger-Brunnen in front of the Ernst-Sachs-Bad (today Kunsthalle Schweinfurt) in Schweinfurt
- 1937 Edwin Scharff , horse tamer for the Reichsausstellung Schaffendes Volk in Düsseldorf , today Nordpark Düsseldorf
- 1938 Joseph Wackerle, horse tamer in front of the portal of the command building of IX. Army Corps (today Federal Social Court ) in Kassel
- 1959 Helmuth Schepp , horse tamer, competition design (plaster model) for the design of a sculpture in front of the large lecture hall building of RWTH Aachen , corner of Turmstrasse / Wüllnerstrasse, Aachen
literature
- Stefan Trinks: The Taming of the Shrew. The horse tamer as a visual means of coercion . In: Tatjana Bartsch, Jörg Meiner (Ed.): Art, Context, History . Berlin 2003, pp. 222-238.
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