Weyhe monument
The Weyhe monument is located in the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf city center . The already 1904 "sandstone monument suffering from the effects of the weather" represents the important garden director Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe (1775–1846). At the beginning of the 19th century, among other things, he redesigned and expanded the Düsseldorf court garden into an English landscape garden.
History and description
In 1848, the Wiesbaden sculptor Karl Hoffmann , who worked at Cologne Cathedral , presented a model for the Weyhe monument. The memorial was supposed to represent “the deceased acting in his creations”. After the contract was signed in April 1850, the monument was completed in September of the same year. It shows the "master sitting on a tree stump with his coat rolled over, the right hand holding the pen, the left hand resting on his knee, holding the plan of the courtyard garden".
Individual evidence
- ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 77, [Fig. 54]
- ^ A b Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres: Art of the 19th Century in the Rhineland: Plastik , Schwann, 1980, p. 296.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 47.5 ″ N , 6 ° 47 ′ 9.6 ″ E