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Badendes Mädchen

Bathing Girl

Johannes Hartmann & Klaus Schwabe
1909 (replica 2000)

Description

Fountain basis in a niche, with a smalle statue of a girl kneeling with one leg on a tree stump.

The pair of fountains Bathing Boy and Bathing Girl was installed at the beginning of the 20th century in the passageway of the Town Hall from the Markt to the Naschmarkt.

The sculpture was stolen in 1992 and could be reconstructed from photos by Klaus Schwabe.

Information Sign

wandbrunnen
von j. hartmann
geweiht 1906
nachbildung
des aufsatzes
anno 2000 von
prof. k. schwabe

initiiert und
gefördert durch
hieronymus-lotter-
ges. leipzig e.v.
kommunale
wasserwerke
leipzig gmbh

Wall fountain
by J. Hartmann
unveiled in 1906
replica
of the top part
anno 2000 by
prof. K. Schwabe

Initiated and
sponsored by
Hieronymus Lotter
Association Leipzig
Municipal
Waterworks
Leipzig

Sculptors

Johannes Hartmann (Leipzig 1869 - Naumburg 1952), German sculptor (Wikipedia).
Klaus Schwabe (Unterweißbach 1939 - Leipzig 2017), German sculptor and graphic artist (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Leipzig-Lexikon, Brunnen.
Das schöne Detail..., Brunnen und Wasserspiele in Leipzig: In der Leipziger Innenstadt.
Wikipedia, Brunnen in Leipzig.

Locatie (N 51°20'25" - E 12°22'30") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: desn123; Photograph: 4 September 2022
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