Diana with greyhounds, Bronze sculpture in Humboldthain, Germany
Diana with Greyhounds is a bronze sculpture mounted on a sandstone base in the Rosengarten of Volkspark Humboldthain in Berlin. The artwork depicts the hunting goddess accompanied by her hounds in a public garden setting.
Walter Schott worked on designs for the figure group from the 1890s, and in 1926 the Berlin magistrate commissioned the execution; it was cast by the Hermann Noack foundry in Berlin-Friedenau. Completed in 1928, the bronze was set up on Pariser Platz in summer 1929, then a year later moved with a travertine base to a lawn by the Gustav-Meyer-Allee in Humboldthain. In 1953 it was placed in the redesigned Rosengarten on a low sandstone base; it was restored at Noack from autumn 1994 to April 1995.
Schott himself called the work only "Jagende Nymphe" or "Jagende Nymphe mit zwei Hunden"; the reading as Diana is a later interpretation. The sculptor also produced a statuette version of the group, just over 50 cm high. The bronze was cast by the Hermann Noack foundry in Berlin-Friedenau, which restored it in 1994–95.
The sculpture sits in the Rosengarten within Humboldthain park and is easily accessible from several park entrances on foot. The garden area around it is flat and suitable for a leisurely walk.
Schott also produced a statuette version of the figure, just over 50 cm tall. The full-size bronze was cast by the Hermann Noack foundry in Berlin-Friedenau, which restored it from autumn 1994 to April 1995, almost seventy years after the original casting.
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