Monument to the Bremen musicians in Bremen and other unusual sculptures of fairy-tale heroes

Thousands of monuments and monuments adorn the square,Parks and public gardens of cities all over the world. As a rule, they are all dedicated to great people or major historical events. However, today I want to dwell on the most unusual sculptures devoted to heroes, which, in general, did not exist at all, characters who were only the fruit of the imagination of artists, poets and writers. Having met many of them in their early childhood, millions of people around the world became their close friends, so the people, as a sign of their sincere love, perpetuated the heroes in bronze, marble and wood.

Monument to the Bremen musicians in Bremen

For example, the memory of the characters of the fairy tale "Bremenmusicians "(Grimm), lives to this day, not only in the homeland of the authors, in the German city of Bremen, but also in many others such as Tsulpich, Leipzig, Furth, Erfurt, Kawaguchi-go (Japan), St. Petersburg, Sochi , Krasnoyarsk, Riga, Lipetsk and Khabarovsk The very first monument to the Bremen musicians was established in the center of Bremen in 1951. Its author was the rather successful German sculptor Gerhard Marx.

In his sculpted bronze sculpturecomposition, the artist captured an episode of a fairy tale in which all the animals climbed on their backs to each other to see in the window what a gang of bandits in a forest house does. At the bottom of the pyramid is a strong donkey, on it a dog, then a cat, and the crowned rooster crowns the composition. It's interesting that a donkey in Riga often rubs his nose, so this piece of bronze sculpture is always lighter than others. And, of course, you will grab luck by the tail, if you reach the cock! The monument to the Bremen musicians, created in Russia, carries even some national flavor: Troubadour is present among fairy-tale musicians only because of the cartoon that has grown fond since childhood, because the Brothers Grimm did not have such a hero at all.

Interesting monuments to literary heroes

It would certainly be worth looking at othermonuments of the world, dedicated to fairy-tale heroes. In the capital of Denmark Copenhagen, in the port, there is a monument to the Little Mermaid - the heroine of the most beautiful and most sad tale of the great Hans Christian Andersen. For over a hundred years she has been sitting on a rock among the waves at the entrance to the harbor, and is waiting for her prince.

Australia, Adelaide. Stone Alice in the middle of a flower bed. The monument to the heroine who has become fond of many is in the UK and in the central park of New York. On the hat of a huge mushroom, Alice gathered her numerous friends for a strange tea party.

In 1956, the famous Emilio Greco created a sculpture of long-nosed Pinocchio. A monument to this immortal fairy-tale hero is installed in the small Italian village of Collodi.

Germany, Bodenwerder. The original monument is a fountain to the most truthful person in the world - Baron Munchausen. Proudly seated on a horse, half of which was demolished during the battle, he watches in amazement as water emerges from her belly.

The German city of Schwalm. It was here that the Brothers Grimm recorded their version of the Little Red Riding Hood and, of course, there is also a monument to the Little Red Riding Hood and the Gray Wolf, to which, according to tradition, on holidays girls come in red headdresses, and young men wear masks of wolves.

Surprisingly - the Brothers Grimm were seriousbut their works are not so well-known as the fairy-tales that have grown fond of everyone, and today not only the monument to the Bremen musicians and the Little Red Riding Hood can be found all over the world, but many others dedicated to the remarkable heroes of their immortal works who are loved by all.

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