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Joachim N. 🇺🇦

February 2, 2022

At first glance, the larger-than-life group of figures is not recognizable as a Beethoven monument. Only the inscription on the base provides information: "Dem Genius Beethoven". The group of figures is thus to be understood as an allegory of human genius. Beethoven is presented allegorically in the center in an athletic form. Powerful and determined, he is ready to push aside anything that resists. He is flanked by the genii, protective spirits in the form of women from Roman mythology. On his left is "the one who senses" and on his right is "the one who calls".

For more than 20 years, from 1926-1946, Georg Kolbe worked on this huge memorial sculpture and died before he could finish it. Ultimately, he was prevented from seeing the final state of his life's work, as it was only inaugurated on June 16, 1951.

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Kristian

December 12, 2022

The Beethoven monument in Frankfurt am Main is a monument created between 1926 and 1948 in the Taunusanlage.

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Bumble-Bee

January 7, 2024

A monument to Beethoven – but can the male figure in the middle be easily identified as the composer? There are certainly physiognomic similarities in the strong chin and the high, angular forehead. But why does he appear like a naked athlete, why are two scantily clad women accompanying him? The inscription on the base provides information about who the monument is actually intended for: “The Genius of Beethoven”.

With his eyes on the people at his feet, this "Beethoven" signals assertiveness - full of tension, he has his powerful arms bent in front of his body and seems ready to simply push aside any resistance. With him are his "geniuses": guardian spirits according to Roman mythology; In later conceptions they also personify human will. In the monument they now stand for the spiritual processes of the Creator: Absorbed in herself, the “meditator” listens to an inner voice, while the “caller” who looks transfiguredly over her audience announces what she has heard.

Georg Kolbe finds means in the ancient vocabulary - in the nudity and athletic stature of the hero, in personification - to be able to visualize his theme, the "genius of Beethoven". The placement on the hill increases the monumentality of the larger-than-life group of figures - and once again emphasizes the artist's creativity, which is set apart from earthly work.

Inspired by a competition in Berlin, Kolbe worked on this monument from 1926 until his death in 1947. Its current structure is based on the third draft from 1928. After two years of back and forth, the Frankfurt city administration awarded the contract for construction in their city in 1938. Only after the war was it possible to cast the figures; The monument was finally built in 1951 and inaugurated on June 16th at the 1st Federal Festival of the General German Singers' Association.

(kunst-im-oeffentlichen-raum-frankfurt.de/de/page69.html?id=114)

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