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Brunnen "Stadtgespräch"

Fountain "City Conversation"

with statues of Walter Gropius and Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau

Christine Rammelt-Hadelich
2020-21 2001

Description

Fountain with in the center a concrete structure with six figures. The fountain embodies the present and the future as well as young and old in equal measure with its individual elements and thus be a reflection of the city and its inhabitants. These figures symbolise a city conversation.

In 2019 (?) was decided to add three new sculptures to the fountain. These figures are to represent historical personalities with a connection to the city of Dessau. Proposed are: Walter Gropius, Princess Louise, and Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff. The material of the sculptures is bronze. The creation of the works, including their installation, is to take place in 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively. We visited Dessau 3 September 2022 and found only the statues of Gropius and Princess Louise.

Dessau - Brunnen "Stadtgespräch"
Walking man with a bunch of flowers about to greet someone
Woman looking out of a window.
Woman with watering can in a window.

Nude man reading a book; in the book a poem Der Lindenbaum. Next to him, four books, one with on the cover stadtgespraech crh99 2001, and on the back of an other junkers. Dessau - Brunnen "Stadtgespräch"
Seated boy 'warming' his hands at a fountain.
Seated girl 'warming' her hands at a fountain.

Gropius and Princess Louise

Gropius stands on a desk with a model of probably the Meisterhäser and text, on the side of the desk is the word BAUHAUS.
Princess Louise holds in her outstretched hand a model of the Luisium castle with bridge near Dessau. At her foot lies a book with a piece of paper with her name "fürstin louise henriette wilhelmine von anhalt-dessau 1750-1811, and on the book ribbon the sculptor's name.

Dessau - Brunnen "Stadtgespräch"
Walter Gropius (Berlin 1883 - Boston, Mass. 1969),
German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School (Wikipedia).
Louise Henriette Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, by marriage princess of Anhalt-Dessau (Stolzenberg, now Różanki, Poland 1750 - Dessau 1811), wife of Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau (statue) (Wikipedia).

Inscription(s)

At the Gropius statue:

walter GROPIUS
(1883 berlin - 1969 boston)

der architekt war BEGRÜNDER
und DIREKTOR der kunstschule
„staatliches bauhausʺ. ab 1919 in
weimar, von 1926 bis 1928 in dessau.
hier wurde das experimentelle

BAUHAUS

gebäude in seiner architektonischen
gestalt richtungsweisend für die
MODERNE BAUKULTUR
des 20. jahrhunderts. es zählt mit den
meisterhäusern zu den hauptwerken
von walter gropius und gehört zum
UNESCO-WELTKULTURERBE.

Walter GROPIUS
(1883 berlin - 1969 boston)

The architect was FOUNDER
and director of the art school
"State Bauhaus". From 1919 in
Weimar, from 1926 to 1928 in Dessau.
here the experimental

BAUHAUS

building in its architectural
design pointing the way for the
MODERN BUILDING CULTURE
of the 20th century. Together with the
Meisterhäuser, it is one of the main works
by Walter Gropius and is a
UNESCO WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE.

And on his desk:

„Nur vollkommene Harmonie
in der technischen
Zweck-Funktion,
sowohl wie in den Proportionen
der Formen, kann Schönheit
hervorbringen. Und das macht
unsere Aufgabe so vielseitig
und kompliziertʺ. W. Gropius

"Only perfect harmony
in the technical
purpose-function,
as well as in the proportions
of the forms, can produce
beauty. And that makes
our task so versatile
and complicated". W. Gropius

Signature

(Princess Louise) 2021 chr. rammelt-hadelich

Sculptor

Christine Rammelt-Hadelich (Dessau 1955), German sculptress from Dessau (Website).

Sources & Information

Verwaltung Dessau-Roßlau, Stadtparkbrunnen wird künstlerisch vollendet.
Visit Dessau, Neues vom Stadtgespräch.

Locatie (N 51°50'1" - E 12°14'31") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: desa132; Photograph: 3 September 2022
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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© Website and photos: René & Peter van der Krogt

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Walking man with a bunch of flowers about to greet someone	Woman looking out of a window.	Woman with watering can in a window.
Nude man reading a book; in the book a poem Der Lindenbaum. Next to him, four books, one with on the cover stadtgespraech crh99 2001, and on the back of an other junkers.	Seated boy 'warming' his hands at a fountain.	Seated girl 'warming' her hands at a fountain.