Monument to Goethe and Schiller

The monument to Goethe and Schiller, located in the German city of Weimar, was erected in 1857 in front of the building of the German National Theatre in honor of the centenary of Karl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Grand Duke. The great German writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller lived in Weimar for a long time, so it was here that this double monument in bronze was erected.

Over the monument worked sculptor Ernst Ritschel with assistant Gustav Adolph Kitz from Dresden and foundryman from Munich Ferdinand von Miller. Their names can be seen engraving on the back of the monument. With the right hands, the great Germans hold one laurel wreath. Goethe, as a senior comrade, placed his left hand on Schiller’s shoulder, and a paper scroll in Schiller’s left hand. Copies of the monument are installed in several cities around the world: Antingue, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Syracuse.