special collection

Busts & Sculptures

The Wende Museum’s predominantly East German and Soviet sculpture collection contains busts of prominent communists and political leaders as well as models of political monuments. Some sculptures register the historical traces of protest and reinterpretation after the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc in 1989–90. The museum’s iconic, spray-painted Lenin sculpture from the street protests in Leipzig in 1989 is one such example.

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To H.W. Süd, Winner of the November 9, 1958 Velocity Competition

To H.W. Süd, Winner of the November 9, 1958 Velocity Competition
Bust
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2004.900.046
Date Made: November 9, 1958

Statue
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2004.900.048
Date Made: n.d.

Lenin Bust
Bust
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2004.900.051
Date Made: 1965

Pink Lenin
Bust
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2004.900.052
Date Made: 1965, modified in 1989

Vladimir I. Lenin

Vladimir I. Lenin
Bust
Maker: VEB Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meißen
ID: 2004.900.073
Date Made: 1977

Statuette, "To Comrade Erich Honecker from the Shipbuilders of the Baltija Factory"
Statuette
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2004.900.085
Date Made: August 11, 1973

Lenin Statuette

Lenin Statuette
Statue
Maker: Stanislav Holda
ID: 2005.055.001
Date Made: 1977

Red Army Soldier, Gift from Soviet Delegation to the Military Academy of the NVA

Red Army Soldier, Gift from Soviet Delegation to the Military Academy of the NVA
Statue
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2006.132.001
Date Made: 1950's

Karl Marx Bust
Bust
Maker: J.F. Rogge
ID: 2007.035.001
Date Made: 1959

Karl Marx Bust
Bust
Maker: Meissen
ID: 2007.239.001
Date Made: n.d.

Adolf Hennecke
Sculpture
Maker: Meissen
ID: 2008.340.001
Date Made: 1950s

Model for Republic of Councils Monument, Budapest

Model for Republic of Councils Monument, Budapest
Sculpture
Maker: István Kiss
ID: 2008.431.001
Date Made: c. 1969

4th Party Congress of the SED, To the Workmen of the Erfurt District

4th Party Congress of the SED, To the Workmen of the Erfurt District
Sculpture
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2008.900.705
Date Made: 1954

Olympic Skater
Statue
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2009.900.808
Date Made: 1956

Model for the Ernst Thälmann Monument in East Berlin

Model for the Ernst Thälmann Monument in East Berlin
Sculpture; model
Maker: Lew Efimovich Kerbel
ID: 2010.900.050
Date Made: c. 1986

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