Lorelei Fountain
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The Lorelei Fountain, also known as the Heinrich Heine Memorial, is a monument located on East 161st Street in the Concourse section of the Bronx, New York City, near the Bronx County Courthouse. It w
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The base
The relief symbolizing poetry
The relief symbolizing humor
Ernst Herter
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Ernst Gustav Herter was a German sculptor. He specialized in creating statues of mythological figures.
Lorelei Fountain
…located on East 161st Street in the Concourse section of the Bronx, New York City, near the Bronx County Courthouse. It was designed by German sculptor Ernst Herter and created in 1896 out of Italian white marble in Laas, South Tyrol. The fountain was unveiled at its current location in 1899 and is dedicated to…
Ernst Herter and his wife Elisabeth, about 1885
Dying Achilles, Achilleion Palace, Corfu, Greece
War Memorial, 1875, Berlin-Spandau