Bogenschütze
The Bogenschütze is a bronze statue of an archer on the Königsufer, the Neustadt bank of the Elbe, listed with its staircase and retaining wall as one heritage monument and dated by the state register to 1935–1936, a recast of an original of 1901.
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What it is
The statue on its pier at the end of the retaining wall. Photographed on 24 October 2013.
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The state heritage register lists a staircase, a retaining wall and the sculpture of an archer on the Königsufer as one monument, and counts it as part of the Königsufer ensemble. It stands between the Staudengarten, the Elbe promenade and Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, and the register’s entry for the whole ensemble puts it near the Albertbrücke.
The garden beside it is the Staudengarten, and the ensemble it belongs to is described on the Königsufer page.
History
The archer from behind, with the Elbe and the far bank behind it. Photographed on 26 April 2008.
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The register dates the standing figure to 1935–1936 and describes it as a recast (Nachguss) of an original of 1901. It dates the staircase and the retaining wall to 1933–1938.
The register entry does not name the sculptor. The Dresden city archive’s record of a picture postcard of the statue gives its maker as Ernst Moritz Geyer, which is the archive’s spelling. A catalogue text of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin on the sculptor Ernst Moritz Geyger (1861–1941) says that Kaiser Wilhelm II acquired his Bogenschütze, which it dates to 1900, for the Sanssouci palace park.
The city archive also holds a view titled “Dresden. Am Königsufer mit Bogenschütze”, dated about 1941.