Winkelried Monument
The Winkelried Monument is a monument to Arnold Winkelried on the village square of Stans , Canton of Nidwalden , Switzerland . The location between the church and the town hall underlines the importance of the monument. A group of three figures in Carrara marble is depicted .
The initiator of the monument building was Anton Albert Durrer (1793–1865), who, on the occasion of the federal field shooting in Lucerne in 1853, made a corresponding application to the Stans town council and carried out a fundraising campaign. In the same year the first competition for the design of the monument was held. Apparently the results were unsatisfactory because two years later, in 1855, a second competition took place under the aegis of the Swiss Art Association . From this the Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth , who worked in Rome, emerged as the winner with his design ; his project was carried out in a slightly modified form.
The monument was now designed, but the hall protecting the marble was missing. To this end, a competition was announced in 1857, which did not lead to satisfactory results. Therefore, the Swiss architect Ferdinand Stadler was entrusted with the task in 1858 , but it would take a full six years before important questions such as the location were clarified and Stadler received the definitive contract. One year later - in September 1865 - the memorial and hall were officially inaugurated. Like some of Stadler's church buildings, the memorial hall is also in the neo-Gothic style.
The Winkelried monument represents the attempt to capture a heroic gesture in a harmonious, classicist triangular shape. This represented a new form of war memorial, which, however, remained without successor. An exception is the Fontana monument erected in 1903 by Schlöth student Richard Kissling in Chur, which translates the three-figure group of the monument in Stans into a two-figure composition.
References
- ^ Andreas Hauser: Ferdinand Stadler, A Contribution to Historicism in Switzerland . Zurich: Krauthammer (1976).
literature
- Arnold Winkelried, his memorial in Stans, exhibition catalog, Nidwalden Museum, Stans, Stans 1986
- Flüeler, Karl: The Winkelried monument from Stans . In: Contributions to the history of Nidwalden , issue 30 (1965), with illus.
- Society for Swiss Art History [Hrsg.]: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture (INSA) 1850-1920, Volume 9, Orell Füssli 2003
- Hess, Stefan / Lochman, Tomas (ed.): Classical beauty and patriotic heroism. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891), Basel 2004
- Hess, Stefan: Between Winckelmann and Winkelried. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891), Berlin 2010; ISBN 978-3-86805-954-0
Coordinates: 46 ° 57 '23.4 " N , 8 ° 21' 56.9" E ; CH1903: 670573 / 201019