PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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WINNING MODEL FOR CHICAGO GOETHE MONUMENT. 
Hermann Hahn. Munich, Sc. 
SELECTING GOETHE MONUMENT for CHICAGO PARK 
The competition for the Goethe memorial, to be erected in 
Chicago, was one of. the most carefully considered and well 
planned of any monumental project of recent years, and the 
exhibition of all of the models that were submitted for this 
memorial put on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan- 
uary 17, shows the wisdom of the methods. Every one of 
the models would make a worthy memorial for any city in 
the country, and it is the intention of the Goethe Monument 
Association to secure the erection of as many of them as 
possible in other cities, the funds to be raised by local ad- 
mirers of the poet. There is already a sentiment started in 
Baltimore for the erection in that city of the model of Hans 
Schuler, the Baltimore sculptor, one of the two Americans 
who took part in the competition 
By the careful planning of those in charge, this monument 
is the result of a broadly conceived international move- 
ment. Although the funds for the monument were raised 
in Chicago, it was felt that a commemorative piece of 
sculpture worthy of representing the German poet could 
be procured only by invoking the aid of his compatriots, 
and the committee selected to take charge of the compe- 
tition, as well as the sculptors invited to compete, include 
some of the leading representatives of the arts in the 
Fatherland. At the outset, it was determined to avoid 
the errors into which former commissions had fallen, to 
accept no replicas of other Goethe monuments or indif- 
ferent portrait statues, and secondly, not to have a por- 
MODEL FOR CHICAGO GOETHE MONUMENT. 
Othmar Schimkowitz, Vienna, Sc. 
trait statue at all. This latter innovation, truly com- 
mendable, was welcomed by the sculptors as releasing 
them from the tranimels of costume and conventionality 
and permitting them to give free flight to their imagina- 
tion and their enthusiasm. For the monument is to rep- 
resent, not the poet himself, in his temporary human form, 
but the eternal characteristics of his genius, an ideal 
symbolizing of his life works in all their influence and im- 
portance; in other words, the “Spirit of Goethe.” 
To secure these results, the chairman of the jury, Mr. 
Harry Rubens, of Chicago, visited Germany, consulted 
with the most eminent authorities, directors and artists, 
and inspected many of the most notable commemorative 
monuments both in north and south Germany. The fol- 
lowing eminent sculptors, as a result of these delibera- 
tions, were invited to compete, each one to receive the 
sum of $750, and the winner of the competition to execute 
the monument: Professor Cipri Adolph Bermann, of 
Munich; Professor Hermann Hahn, of Munich; Anton 
Hanak, of Vienna; Professor Hugo Lederer, of Berlin; 
Professor Hubert Netzer, of Munich; Othmar Schim- 
kowitz. of Vienna; Professor Georg B. W'rba, of Dresden; 
Albert Jaegers, Suffern, N. Y., and Hans Schuler, Balti- 
more, Md. 
The jury to decide this competitfpn included the follow- 
ing artists and laymen: Ferdinand von Miller, Munich, 
sculptor, director of the Royal Academy of Munich; Louis 
MODEL FOR CHICAGO GOETHE MONUMENT. 
Hubert Netzer, Munich, Sc. 
