Löwenkämpfer, Bronze equestrian sculpture in Mitte, Berlin, Germany
The Löwenkämpfer is a 4.50-metre bronze group on the western stairway cheek of the Altes Museum in Berlin-Mitte, cast by Hermann Gladenbeck from a design by Christian Daniel Rauch and executed by Albert Wolff. It shows a mounted lancer on horseback driving his lance into an attacking lion. Its counterpart is August Kiß's Amazone zu Pferde on the eastern stairway cheek.
Albert Wolff modelled the bronze group between 1854 and 1861 after a design by Christian Daniel Rauch, and it was cast by the Hermann Gladenbeck foundry. It stands on the western stair cheek of the Altes Museum as the counterpart to August Kiß's Amazone zu Pferde on the eastern side. An 1892 German-American copy was placed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The sculpture is the counterpart to August Kiß's Amazone zu Pferde on the eastern stair cheek of the Altes Museum, and it also corresponded with Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg's Rossebändiger on the garden terrace of the Berlin Palace. The bronze was cast by the Hermann Gladenbeck foundry.
The sculpture stands in front of the Altes Museum on Museum Island and is accessible for free from outside at all times since it is displayed in public space. Visitors can view it from multiple angles by walking around it for the best perspective of its dynamic composition.
A second cast of this work is located thousands of kilometers away at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, making it one of the few German monumental sculptures distributed internationally in this way. This duplication demonstrates the high artistic recognition the work achieved after its completion.
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