Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
View from east
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Fountain plan / Originally it was only about a ventilation shaft of the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres.
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Drawing
Material: bronze, marble
drawing 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Hans Sachs dances over the chaos of his marriage on the marital rock
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Fountain nymph
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Fountain nymph
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Site map: carousel carriage "hell fire"
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
drawing 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Hell fire" with couple chained together
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Hell fire", husband and wife fettered together in hatred, the husband as a dancing male devil, the wife as a devilish female
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Hell fire", back, "The carriage is a fire gondola floating on the water" (J.W.)
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Hell fire", detail, fire gilded
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2014,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Transition from "Hell carriage" to "Swan carriage", the feathers of the swan resemble flames, they are the flames of love." (J.W.)
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Site map: carousel carriage "Swan carriage"
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
drawing 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Swan carriage" / A swan with two necks and two heads beaking with each other. In Greek mythology the swan is considered to be the bird of love. (J.W.)
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Loving couple on the "Swan Carriage." /"The naked couple kisses in the feathers."/ ...the swan is a symbol of love and besides it appears frequently as a carousel carriage.
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Site map, carousel carriage "Hell Dragon"
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
drawing 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Hell Dragon" , front
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Hell Dragon", back
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
A "Hell Dragon" striped green and golden, is carrying an already dead, partially rotten and skeletonised couple, which is at each other's throats" (J.W.)
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Detail on one of the dragon´s front legs: "Marital strife in eternity" referring to the Divorce Law enacted on 1 st July 1977
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Hell Dragon", detail
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2014,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Head of the "Hell Dragon".
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
View from the "Weißer Turm", on the left the "Hell Dragon", in the centre front the marble heart with the poem, on the right the Pelican Carriage
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2014,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"The heart as a popular symbol of love is inlaid in the pavement of Ludwigsplatz like a tombstone. (J.W
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Heart from red marble (Portugal, Estremoz), with the poem on "the bittersweet marital life" by Hans Sachs
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Marble heart, detail
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Marble heart, "stonemason´s mark" on the back, left and right
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Rose stand", a column-like almost 3m high rose arrangement
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Rose stand" with the names of Jürgen and Renate Weber
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
south side
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Site map, carousel carriage "Pelican Carriage"
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
drawing 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Pelican Carriage", Pelican tearing its bleeding heart out of its body with its large beak. "Among the early Christians, the pelican was considered the symbol of a mother's love".
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Pelican Carriage" / "The mother, dressed in a wrinkled blue garment resembling an evening gown, feeds the two children". (J.W.)
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Pelican Carriage", father of the family, detail
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Fruit wreath as scene divider
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Site map: carousel carriage "Wolverine"
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
drawing 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Wolverine" / The bear eats a fish, the wife eats the husband´s piece of cake.
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Wolverine, detail
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Wolverine"/ detail with overflowing cup
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Site map, carousel carriage Venus clam
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
drawing 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Venus clam" / "The young woman emerges naked and beautiful - like Venus, the foam-born goddess of eternal youth - from the shell, roses of love in her hair." (J.W.)
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Venus clam"/"He sings of naked beauty with his instrument, the shell becomes a fairground stall" (J.W.)
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Venus clam", lateral view
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
"Venus clam", detail
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
goat
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
Marital rock, on which the dead couple is displayed as the goat perished and as a human skull. "Till death you to part."
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,
Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain
1977 1994
front left, the goat still well, behind that the goat, perished on the marital rock
Originally, it was only about a ventilation shaft for the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres. In the middle of 1977, Jürgen Weber received an enquiry from the city's master builder Görl as to whether he could imagine a pictorial solution.
Hans Sachs' poem about the "bittersweet conjugal life" became the theme for the fountain.
"The designed marriage carousel turned the poem into a spatial, coherent organism".
"The fountain does not represent the chronological course of a marriage from the time of meeting to death, but states of marriage - as in the poem by Hans Sachs." (J.W.)
"... I also started from a form without beginning and end: from a merry-go-round, which summarises the positive and negative statements about marriage in six carriages." (J.W.)
"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)
On one leg of the "dragon of hell" there is the inscription:
"Marital strife for eternity" 1.7.1977 / "On this day, a law was issued that enacted the merciless fight for money, eliminating all morality" (J.W.)
The plaster model of the fountain was sawn into 250 individual pieces. The cast individual pieces were later welded together again.
With the exception of the fire gilding, nothing of the original coloured version is visible to the naked eye.
__________________
Literature:
- The Marriage Carousel, Jürgen Weber, Verlag M. Edelmann, Nuremberg, 1985.
- The Ship of Fools, Art without a Compass, Universitas Verlag, Munich, 1994
Location: Nürnberg, Ludwigsplatz, Weißer Turm (Ostseite)
Material: bronze, marble
photo 2021,