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Neptune fountain

Neptune fountain General view of the Neptune Fountain

Neptune fountain

1583

General view of the Neptune Fountain



(Illustration from: Thirtyseven copper engravings of visible and noteworthy things in the City of Nuremberg of the Holy Roman Empire To be found at Georg Peter Monath

1777

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Presumably through the mediation of Tycho Brahe, Labenwolf travelled to Denmark in the winter of 1576/77, where he received the commission for a fountain and a down payment of 1000 talers. The fountain was only completed after many complaints from the Danish King Frederick II and serious interventions by the Nuremberg Council. After a three-day trial run at the end of 1582 in the Nuremberg moat near the Frauentor, the fountain, which weighed about 200 hundredweight, was erected in 1583-85 in Kronburg Castle by Georg Labenwolf's son, his son Lienhard and two cousins. The fountain was crowned by a rotating water-spouting Neptune. The models of the 36 water-spouting figures were made by Lienhard Schacht. Contemporaries estimated the total price at around 25,000 thalers. In 1659 the fountain was destroyed by the Swedes, three figures of Minerva, Juno and Venus have survived in the National Museum in Stockholm. (...)


quoted from the Nuremberg Künstlerlexikon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb

Location: private

Design: Labenwolf, Georg

Realization: Monath, Georg Peter, Monath, Peter Conrad

photoTheo Noll

Neptune fountain Fountain column

Neptune fountain

1583

Fountain column



(Illustration from: Thirtyseven copper engravings of visible and noteworthy things in the City of Nuremberg of the Holy Roman Empire To be found at Georg Peter Monath

1777

______________________

Presumably through the mediation of Tycho Brahe, Labenwolf travelled to Denmark in the winter of 1576/77, where he received the commission for a fountain and a down payment of 1000 talers. The fountain was only completed after many complaints from the Danish King Frederick II and serious interventions by the Nuremberg Council. After a three-day trial run at the end of 1582 in the Nuremberg moat near the Frauentor, the fountain, which weighed about 200 hundredweight, was erected in 1583-85 in Kronburg Castle by Georg Labenwolf's son, his son Lienhard and two cousins. The fountain was crowned by a rotating water-spouting Neptune. The models of the 36 water-spouting figures were made by Lienhard Schacht. Contemporaries estimated the total price at around 25,000 thalers. In 1659 the fountain was destroyed by the Swedes, three figures of Minerva, Juno and Venus have survived in the National Museum in Stockholm. (...)


quoted from the Nuremberg Künstlerlexikon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb

Location: private

Design: Labenwolf, Georg

Realization: Monath, Georg Peter, Monath, Peter Conrad

photoTheo Noll

Neptune fountain Fountain basin, The warrior figures as an allusion to the Battle of Lepanto (1571)?

Neptune fountain

1583

Fountain basin, The warrior figures as an allusion to the Battle of Lepanto (1571)?



(Illustration from: Thirtyseven copper engravings of visible and noteworthy things in the City of Nuremberg of the Holy Roman Empire To be found at Georg Peter Monath

1777

______________________

Presumably through the mediation of Tycho Brahe, Labenwolf travelled to Denmark in the winter of 1576/77, where he received the commission for a fountain and a down payment of 1000 talers. The fountain was only completed after many complaints from the Danish King Frederick II and serious interventions by the Nuremberg Council. After a three-day trial run at the end of 1582 in the Nuremberg moat near the Frauentor, the fountain, which weighed about 200 hundredweight, was erected in 1583-85 in Kronburg Castle by Georg Labenwolf's son, his son Lienhard and two cousins. The fountain was crowned by a rotating water-spouting Neptune. The models of the 36 water-spouting figures were made by Lienhard Schacht. Contemporaries estimated the total price at around 25,000 thalers. In 1659 the fountain was destroyed by the Swedes, three figures of Minerva, Juno and Venus have survived in the National Museum in Stockholm. (...)


quoted from the Nuremberg Künstlerlexikon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb

Location: private

Design: Labenwolf, Georg

Realization: Monath, Georg Peter, Monath, Peter Conrad

photo

Neptune fountain Signature of Peter Conrad Monath, above pelvic cheek with two tondi: on the left the Pillars of Hercules? on the right the Gulf of Patras?

Neptune fountain

1583

Signature of Peter Conrad Monath, above pelvic cheek with two tondi: on the left the Pillars of Hercules? on the right the Gulf of Patras?



(Illustration from: Thirtyseven copper engravings of visible and noteworthy things in the City of Nuremberg of the Holy Roman Empire To be found at Georg Peter Monath

1777

______________________

Presumably through the mediation of Tycho Brahe, Labenwolf travelled to Denmark in the winter of 1576/77, where he received the commission for a fountain and a down payment of 1000 talers. The fountain was only completed after many complaints from the Danish King Frederick II and serious interventions by the Nuremberg Council. After a three-day trial run at the end of 1582 in the Nuremberg moat near the Frauentor, the fountain, which weighed about 200 hundredweight, was erected in 1583-85 in Kronburg Castle by Georg Labenwolf's son, his son Lienhard and two cousins. The fountain was crowned by a rotating water-spouting Neptune. The models of the 36 water-spouting figures were made by Lienhard Schacht. Contemporaries estimated the total price at around 25,000 thalers. In 1659 the fountain was destroyed by the Swedes, three figures of Minerva, Juno and Venus have survived in the National Museum in Stockholm. (...)


quoted from the Nuremberg Künstlerlexikon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb

Location: private

Design: Labenwolf, Georg

Realization: Monath, Georg Peter, Monath, Peter Conrad

photoTheo Noll

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