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Pan Comforting Psyche
Reinhold Begas1857 - 1858
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Deserted by Amor, her lover, Psyche bemoans her curiosity and its consequences. Agitated yet demure, she is comforted by Pan, the otherwise frivolous god of nature. The subject allowed Begas to unite a range of contrasts within one sculpture: female/male, tender/rough, youthful/old.
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- Title: Pan Comforting Psyche
- Creator: Reinhold Begas
- Date Created: 1857 - 1858
- Physical Dimensions: w101.0 x h132.0 x d67.0 cm
- Type: Sculpture
- Technique and material: Marble
- Inv.-No.: B II 119
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-815114
- External link: Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Copyrights: Text: © Prestel Verlag / Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: © b p k - Photo Agency / Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Andres Kilger
- Collection: Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Artist biography: Reinhold Begas was a German sculptor. He was an apprentice under Christian Daniel Rauch and Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann. From 1856 to 1858 he travelled around Italy where he was influenced by Arnold Böcklin and Franz Lenbach to move towards a naturalistic style in sculpture. In 1861 he was appointed professor at the Weimar art school before winning the competition to create the statue of Schiller at Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin. From 1870 he was the leading artist working in the plastic arts in the Kingdom of Prussia. His artworks dominated the urban landscape, particularly of Berlin, during the German empire. Several sculptures in Berlin bear testament to his high reputation, such as the Neptune fountain in bronze, originally erected on Schlossplatz, the figure of Alexander von Humboldt in front of the Humboldt-Universität or the statue of Otto von Bismarck in the city’s cathedral.
- Artist Place of Death: Schöneberg, Germany
- Artist Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
- Artist Dates: 1831-07-15/1911-08-03
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