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Borghesischer Fechter

Borghese Gladiators

(Wikipedia)

Antique sculptor/artist & Carlo Wloch
copy 1997

Description

Two identical bronze fighters with sword and shield on the Fechtertor (Fighters gate).

Putbus - Borghesischer Fechter

Signature

(on both) Bilgießerei Seiler Berlin Rest. Carlo Wloch.

Annotation

They were modeled after the statue from the Villa Borghese in Rome, now in the Louvre. Copies with a sword and shield added were made for the Charlottenburg casrle in Berlin. In Putbus copies were placed in 1820 on the Platanenplatz, and since 1828 on the present location. After world war II they were lost. The restorer Carlo Wloch made new casts in 1997, using the Charlottenburg copies as model.

Sculptors

Anonymous Roman or Greek sculptor or artist from Antiquity
Carlo Wloch (Berlin-Pankow 1948), sculptor and stonemason in Berlin (Website).

Sources & Information

Berliner Zeitung, 17 July 1999 Ein Aprilscherz war Auslöser für die Restaurierung der Skulpturen und Pfeilerabdeckungen am Eingangstor "Borghesische Fechter" sind ans Schloß zurückgekehrt.

Locatie (N 54°20'59" - E 13°28'48") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: demv010; Photograph: 1 August 2016
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