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Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain

Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain View from east

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 Fountain plan / Originally it was only about a ventilation shaft of the newly built underground. It has a diameter of 6 metres.

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 Hans Sachs dances over the chaos of his marriage on the marital rock

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 "To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living billy goat and the fountain nymph as symbols of the love instinct. Death and life break the circling form of the marriage carousel." (J.W.)

Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain

1977 1994

"To the left and right of Hans Sachs stand the living billy 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 Fountain nymph

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 Fountain nymph

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 Site map: carousel carriage "hell fire"

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 "Hell fire" with couple chained together

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 "Hell fire", husband and wife fettered together in hatred, the husband as a dancing male devil, the wife as a devilish female

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 "Hell fire", back, "The carriage is a fire gondola floating on the water" (J.W.)

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 "Hell fire", detail, fire gilded

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 Transition from "Hell carriage" to "Swan carriage", the feathers of the swan resemble flames, they are the flames of love." (J.W.)

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 Site map: carousel carriage "Swan carriage"

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 "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.)

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 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.

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 Site map, carousel carriage "Hell Dragon"

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 "Hell Dragon" , front

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 "Hell Dragon", back

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 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.)

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 Detail on one of the dragon´s front legs: "Marital strife in eternity" referring to the Divorce Law enacted on 1 st July 1977

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 "Hell Dragon", detail

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 Head of the "Hell Dragon".

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 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

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 "The heart as a popular symbol of love is inlaid in the pavement of Ludwigsplatz like a tombstone. (J.W

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 Heart from red marble (Portugal, Estremoz), with the poem on "the bittersweet marital life" by Hans Sachs

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 Marble heart, detail

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 Marble heart, "stonemason´s mark" on the back, left and right

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 "Rose stand", a column-like almost 3m high rose arrangement

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 "Rose stand" with the names of Jürgen and Renate Weber

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 south side

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 Site map, carousel carriage "Pelican Carriage"

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 "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".

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 "Pelican Carriage" / "The mother, dressed in a wrinkled blue garment resembling an evening gown, feeds the two children". (J.W.)

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 "Pelican Carriage", father of the family, detail

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 Fruit wreath as scene divider

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 Site map: carousel carriage "Wolverine"

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 "Wolverine" / The bear eats a fish, the wife eats the husband´s piece of cake.

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 Wolverine, detail

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 "Wolverine"/ detail with overflowing cup

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 Site map, carousel carriage Venus clam

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 "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.)

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 "Venus clam"/"He sings of naked beauty with his instrument, the shell becomes a fairground stall" (J.W.)

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 "Venus clam", lateral view

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 "Venus clam", detail

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 billy goat

Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain

1977 1994

billy 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 Marital rock, on which the dead couple is displayed as the billy goat perished and as a human skull. "Till death you to part."

Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain

1977 1994

Marital rock, on which the dead couple is displayed as the billy 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 front left, the billy goat still well, behind that the billy goat, perished on the marital rock

Marriage carousel/ Hans Sachs Fountain

1977 1994

front left, the billy goat still well, behind that the billy 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,

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