Martin Luther Statue
Bronze Reformer clutching his Bible, its head taken from a master sculptor's unused clay model.
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This guide to the Martin Luther Statue on Dresden's Neumarkt is about a face rather than a man: the clay head of Luther that sculptor Ernst Rietschel modelled for the great Reformation monument in Worms. It follows Rietschel, his pupil Adolf von Donndorf, and a Dresden bell foundry in the eighteen-eighties. Stand close to the plinth, where you can study the tilt of the head and the hands on the Bible.
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