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Düsseldorf
Stadt Düsseldorf
Nordrhein-Westfalen

Josef-Beuys-Ufer
(Rheingärtchen)

Die Wasserträgerin

The Water Bearer

Bernhard Sopher
Düsseldorfer Broncegiesserei
1925

Description

Bronze sculpture of a nude Nubian woman with a pot on her head, on a pedestal placed in a fountain.

Signature

B. Sopher 1925
düsseldorfer broncegiesserei / g.m.b.h.

Sculptor

Bernhard Sopher (Safed, Palestine, 1879 - Hollywood, USA, 1949), American sculptor of German descent (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Stadt Düsseldorf, Das Rheingärtchen.

Locatie (N 51°14'6" - E 6°46'16") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw057; Photograph: 6 August 2009
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