Monument to Dürer in Nuremberg

On the beautiful Tiergä rtnertorplatz square in Nuremberg stands a monument to the famous German artist Albert Dürer. The monument depicts not quite Durer, and is a huge, a little scary hare made of bronze, and next to it is an exact copy of a small furry animal from the artist’s painting.

The author of the sculpture is Jürgen Hertz, a modern avant-garde animalist. Through his work, he expresses gratitude and tribute to the German people to his eminent countryman.

Albert Dürer lived and worked in Nuenberg in the XV-XVI centuries. He was a versatile and talented person, creating beautiful masterpieces of fine art: woodcuts, paintings of religious content, a huge number of portraits and self-portraits.