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Bad Camberg
Lkr. Limburg-Weilburg
Hessen

Frankfurter Straße 15-19
(Freiherr-von-Schütz-Schule)

Hugo von Schütz zu Holzhausen

Camberg 1780 - Wiesbaden 1847
Founder of the first deaf school in the Duchy of Nassau, today Freiherr von Schütz school in Bad Camberg.
(Wikipedia)

Arnold Künne & Kurt Passon
1903/1975

Bad Camberg / Hugo von Schütz zu Holzhausen

Description

Bronze bust on a granite plint, on which a bronze relief showing Hugo von Schütz as a teacher, with a boy and a girl. The inscription is a quote from the Proverbs of Solomon.

Bad Camberg - Hugo von Schütz zu Holzhausen

Inscription(s)

freiherr
HUGO v. SCHÜTZ z. HOLZHAUSEN
gründer der taubstummen anstalt
1780-1847

„tue deinen mund auf für
die stummenʺ spr.sal.31,8

Signature

(bust) Passon B+B (?)

Annotation

The original bust was lost during World War II and is in 1975 by a new much simpler bust made by Passon.

Sculptors

Arnold Künne (Altena 1866 - Berlin 1942), German sculptor (Wikipedia).
Kurt Passon (Breslau 1930 - 2007), German sculptor.

Sources & Information

Freiherr-von-Schütz-Schule, Denkmal.

Locatie (N 50°17'43" - E 8°16'10") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: dehs243; Photograph: 2 November 2015
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