Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

1. Friedrich I - Friedrich I. Barbarossa / Frederick I Barbarossa (ca. 1122 - 1190), German Holy Roman Emperor. He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March, crowned King of Italy in Pavia in 1155, and finally crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV, on 18 June 1155 (Wikipedia).
   Frederick I Barbarossa was the first Roman Emperor who was chosen in Frankfurt. Sculpted by Kowarzik.
2. Ludwig I - Ludwig IV. der Bayer / Louis IV (München 1281/82- Puch bei Fürstenfeldbruck 1347) King of Germany (King of the Romans) from 1346, King of Italy from 1327 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1328 (Wikipedia).
   Ludwig the Bavarian granted Frankfurt a number of important privileges such as the right to a second fair in each year, the approval for the building of a town hall and the possibility of urban expansion. Sculpted by Kowarzik.
3. Karl IV - Karl IV. / Charles IV (Praha 1316 - Praha 1378) King of Germany (King of the Romans) from 1314, King of Italy from 1355 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 (Wikipedia).
   Karl IV's golden bull made Frankfurt to be a statutory electing town of the empire. Sculpted by Hausmann.
4. Maximilian II Maximilian II (Wien 1527 - Regensburg 1576) Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 (Wikipedia).
   Maximilan II was the first emperor crowned in Frankfurt. Sculpted by Hausmann.

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Sculptors

• Friedrich Christoph Hausmann (Wien 1860 - Bad Soden am Taunus 1936), Austrian-German sculptor (Wikipedia).
  
• Joseph Kowarzik (Wien 1860 - Cannes 1911), German sculptor (ÖBL, Band 4, S.175).

Sources & Information

• Wikipedia, Römer (Frankfurt am Main).
• Willi Stubenvoll, 'Das Frankfurter Rathaus 1896-1901', p. 415-451 in Ekkehard Mai et al., Das Rathaus im Kaiserreich: Kunstpolitische Aspekte einer Bauaufgabe des 19. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1982).

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