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Donndorf Fountain

Adolf von Donndorf
Pelargus (Stuttgart)
1895

Description

Fountain with a bronze sculpture group "Mutterliebe" (Mother's Love): a water fetching mother with two children. The year 1895 is on the sockle.

Inscription(s)

meiner vaterstadt
in liebe und dankbarkeut
gewidmet

Signature

Signed: A. Donndorf fec.
Geg: v. Hugo Pelargus 1893 Stuttgart.

Annotation

The original sculpture was made by Donndorf for Willi D. James in 1876, and was placed in 1891 on Union Square in New York. A second cast was given to the town of Zwittau (Svitavy, Czech Republic). The third cast was given by Donndorf to his native town of Weimar, and the fourth cast was placed in Stuttgart in 1898. In 1917 the Stuttgart copy was molten for the war industry. In 2008 a new cast was made after the copies in Weimar and Svitavy.

Sculptor

Adolf von Donndorf (Weimar 1835 - Stuttgart 1916), German sculptor from Dresden, father of Karl Donndorf (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Stadt Weimar, Brunnen.
Weimar-Lese, Brunnen.

Locatie (N 50°58'49" - E 11°19'39") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: deth040; Photograph: 7 August 2013
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