Horse head of the quadriga on Brandenburger Tor

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Horse head of the quadriga on Brandenburger Tor Berlin

Low Poly Version of the horse head, based on photogrammetry from mobile phone camera footage.

In March 1789, Schadow was commissioned by the Oberhofbauamt with the design for the quadriga for the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans. Within four weeks he had to deliver a small model of the four horses, the chariot and the Victoria, which served as the basis for further planning. In June 1793, the group could be assembled, driven into copper sheet by Emanuel Ernst Jury. Badly damaged by shelling in the last days of the war in 1945, the quadriga was dismantled and largely melted down in 1950. The only original part of Schadow’s sculpture that has been preserved is the head of the left outer horse, which has been transferred to the Märkisches Museum.

See also: https://sammlung-online.stadtmuseum.de/Details/Index/356133

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