Amazone zu Pferde, Bronze equestrian statue at Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Amazone zu Pferde is a 3.70-metre bronze group by August Kiss, cast by Christoph Heinrich Fischer, showing a mounted Amazon driving her lance into a leaping panther. It stands on the eastern stairway cheek of the Altes Museum in Berlin-Mitte, facing Albert Wolff's Löwenkämpfer on the western side.
August Kiss modelled the group in clay in 1839 and cast it in bronze between 1837 and 1841 at the Christoph Heinrich Fischer foundry, for the eastern stairway of the Altes Museum. It was made as the counterpart to Albert Wolff's Löwenkämpfer on the western side, and Kiss produced a marble version in 1865, now in Antwerp's Royal Museum of Fine Arts.
The statue depicts an Amazon defending herself against a leaping panther and forms a thematic pair with the Lion Fighter sculpture opposite it. Together, these two works frame the museum's staircases and create a bold visual statement that greets visitors entering the building.
The sculpture stands directly at the stairway and is easily visible from outside, though closer viewing requires access to the museum courtyard. The area can be crowded, especially when other visitors are taking photographs or using the stairs.
A copy created in 1929 through German-American collaboration now stands at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This transatlantic reproduction shows how influential the work became beyond European borders.
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