Wellenreiter II
Wellenreiter II stands on the northwest shore of Wöhrder See in Nuremberg, bringing bronze sculpture to the lakeside. Waldemar Grzimek created the work in 1978. Hermann Noack cast the bronze, connecting the sculpture with Germany’s twentieth-century art tradition. The city of Nuremberg acquired it in 1982.
Grzimek was born in 1918 in Rastenburg, East Prussia, now Kętrzyn in Poland, and moved to Berlin in 1925. Berlin Zoo animals helped shape his early interest in sculpture. He also encountered Hugo Lederer, a professor at the Berlin Academy of Arts, during those formative years. His work includes animal sculptures, family busts, memorials, and fountains. At Wöhrder See, this bronze piece places that varied practice beside the water.
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