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FRITZ KOENIG-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. A host of entities merge in cast bronzes by West Germany's foremost sculptor. From such subjects as an ancient quadriga, Manhattan and a man in a landscape, he fashions a miracle of the union of one life with another. Through...
...Berliners, no statue was more beloved than the great copper-plated goddess of victory driving her four 12-ft. horses proudly atop the 69-ft.-tall Brandenburg Gate. Completed in 1794, the Quadriga of Victory was the most famous work of a minor Prussian court sculptor, Johann Gottfried Schadow. But it caught the admiring eye of Napoleon as he rode in triumph through the gate in 1806, and the conqueror ordered it carted off to Paris. Brought back again by the Prussians in 1815 (when it acquired an iron cross surrounded by an oak leaf topped by an eagle...
Last week Berliners rejoiced with the news that the Quadriga would once again be back in its place. East Berlin's Mayor Friedrich Ebert had originally suggested restoring the Quadriga to its place. Last week West Berlin Mayor Otto Suhr, whose Staatliche Museen has the original 1,000-piece mold stored in its cellar, agreed. The task of assembling the statue will cost $38,000, take more than a year to complete. Though the goddess of victory will then preside triumphantly over Communist East Berlin, West Berliners noted one fact with satisfaction. With the Quadriga back in place, there...
...numbers. But the fanatics fought on. Perhaps they meant to fight from the deep basement of Hitler's chancellery, from behind the heroic statues of Prussians in the Tiergarten's Victory Avenue, from all around the 150-year-old Brandenburger Tor and its surmounting green-grey copper Quadriga of Victory. Defense Commissioner Joseph Goebbels screamed his final exhortations to stand and die, then, reportedly, fled. The Hamburg radio shrilled that Adolf Hitler himself had chosen to stay in his capital at the head of its defense rather than retreat to a place of safety in the south. Berliners...
...where his body was found, but a much finer one, a mile or so north, where the rugged marble mountains of Carrara furnish a lofty, solemn background. The sculptor, Fontana, has already achieved distinction in works of impressive size-notably in the Garibaldi at Sarzana, and the newly erected Quadriga at Rome. Said Fontana: "We, too, claim some share in Shelley's memory. He lived and died among us. Prometheus has, I suppose haunted most sculptors. What fitter monument could Shelley have than Prometheus Unbound, bearing the torch of freedom? The port needs a lighthouse. The mountains close...
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