Fountain of Fate (Stuttgart)
The Schicksalsbrunnen is a fountain in the Upper Palace Gardens in Stuttgart . It was designed in 1914 by the sculptor Karl Donndorf (1870–1941) in Art Nouveau style and is considered to be one of the most important fountains of this style in Germany.
history
Karl Donndorf, together with the sculptors Richard and Willy Schönfeld, created this fountain in memory of the German-Swiss opera singer Anna Sutter , who was murdered in 1910 by a former lover. The fountain was built in 1914 at the artist's entrance to what was then the Württemberg State Opera (today the Opera House of the Stuttgart State Theater ), which was located on what was then Neckarstrasse (today this section of the street is called Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse).
In 1963 the fountain of fate was moved to the other side of the building to its current location in the Upper Palace Garden between the opera and the theater. The maintenance and operation of the fountain are financed by the city of Stuttgart, the Stuttgart Brünnele Foundation and so-called fountain sponsors. It is usually in operation from around mid-May to mid-September.
symbolism
The theme of the fountain is the changeable fate that confronts people with joy and suffering, both as stage characters and in real life. The fountain is designed in a semicircle, in the middle of which the goddess of fate sits with outspread arms. In her closed hands she keeps the fate of the people hidden. To the right and left of the goddess at the ends of the semicircle there are two lovers who symbolize joy and sorrow.
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To the left hand of the goddess of fate is the allegory of joy. It shows a couple in love with a seated man wearing a victory wreath and holding the full bowl of life in his hand - a woman looks up happily at him. Donndorf had already used the motif of the bowl of life in the hand of a young man a year earlier in 1913 for the youth fountain, also designed by him, in the former Ostheim workers' housing estate in East Stuttgart .
On the right hand of the goddess of fate is the allegory of suffering. It shows a couple in whom a desperate man hides his head in the lap of a seated woman.
In addition, the fountain of fate bears the following inscription:
FROM THE FATE'S DARK SOURCE
THE CHANGING LOST IS RUNNING
TODAY YOU STAND FIXED AND
MORNING YOU WILL ROLL THE WAVE
Web links
- The fountain of fate on the homepage of the city of Stuttgart
- The fountain of fate on the website Brunnen und Staffeln in Stuttgart
- The fountain on the homepage of the Stuttgart Brünnele Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Well of Fate | Fountain and squadrons in Stuttgart. In: www.stuttgarter-brunnen.de. Retrieved August 1, 2016 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '48.9 " N , 9 ° 11' 3.2" E