Monument to the Bremen musicians in Bremen and other unusual sculptures of fairy-tale heroes

Thousands of monuments and monuments adorn the squares, parks and squares of cities around the world. As a rule, they are all devoted to great people or major historical events. However, today I want to dwell on the most unusual sculptures devoted to heroes, which, in general, did not exist at all, characters who were only the fruit of the imagination of artists, poets and writers. Having met many of them in their early childhood, millions of people around the world became their close friends, so the people, as a sign of their sincere love, perpetuated heroes in bronze, marble and wood.

Monument to the Bremen musicians in Bremen

For example, the memory of the characters of the fairy tale "Bremen Town Musicians" (Grimm), still lives today, not only in the homeland of the authors, in the German city of Bremen, but also in many others such as Zulpich, Leipzig, Fürth, Erfurt, Kawaguchi-go (Japan), St. Petersburg, Sochi, Krasnoyarsk, Riga, Lipetsk and Khabarovsk. The very first monument to the Bremen musicians was established in the center of Bremen in 1951. His author was quite successful German sculptor Gerhard Marx.

In his sculptural composition made of bronze, the artist captured an episode of a fairy tale in which all the animals climbed on their backs to see in the window what a gang of bandits in a forest house does. At the base of the pyramid stands a strong donkey, on it a dog, then a cat, and the crown is crowned by a proudly standing cock. It is interesting that a donkey in Riga often rubs his nose, so this piece of bronze sculpture is always lighter than others. And, of course, you will grab luck by the tail, if you reach the cock! The monument to the Bremen musicians, created in Russia, bears even some national flavor: Troubadour is present among fairy-tale musicians only because of the cartoon that has grown fond since childhood, because the Brothers Grimm did not have such a hero at all.

Interesting monuments to literary heroes

Certainly worth looking at other monuments of the world, dedicated to fairy-tale heroes. The capital of Denmark Copenhagen, in the port, has a monument to the Little Mermaid - the heroine of the most beautiful and most sad tale of the great Hans Christian Andersen. For over a hundred years she has been sitting on a rock among the waves at the entrance to the harbor, and is waiting for her prince.

Australia, Adelaide. Stone Alice in the middle of a flower bed. The monument to the heroine who has become fond of many is in the UK and in the central park of New York. On the hat of a huge mushroom, Alice gathered her numerous friends for a strange tea party.

In 1956, the famous Emilio Greco created a sculpture of long-nosed Pinocchio. A monument to this immortal fairy-tale hero is installed in the small Italian village of Collodi.

Germany, Bodenwerder. The original monument is a fountain to the most truthful person in the world - Baron Munchausen. Proudly seated on a horse, half of which was demolished during the battle, he watches in amazement as water flows from her belly.

The German city of Schwalm. It was here that the Brothers Grimm wrote their version of the Little Red Riding Hood and, of course, there is also a monument to the Little Red Riding Hood and the Gray Wolf, to which, according to tradition, girls are wearing red headdresses on holidays, and young men are wearing wolf masks.

Surprisingly, the Grimm brothers were serious scientists, but their works are not so well-known as the fairy-tale that they loved, and today not only the monument to the Bremen musicians and the Little Red Riding Hood can be found all over the world, but many other ones dedicated to the remarkable heroes of their immortal works .