This is a digital reconstruction of the destroyed sculpture “Ich habe keine Zeit Müde zu sein”
Designed by Michel Lock (1891) and sculpted by Fritz Tübbecke (1899)
WOW!!! This is fantastic. Did you sculpt all of this in ZBrush
Thank you, glad you like it
Except for the chair and stairs, everything was handsculpted with Zbrush. The drapery and folds of the cloth was a massive challenge
I’m sorry, but this is awesome!
Just read up on it since I didn’t know the original. Apparently it did survive the bombardment of WW2 but got destroyed when the East German government in the 1950s decided to tear down Monbijou Palace
What a frickin’ shame…
Did you recreate it just based on photos? Has any official from the German government or museums ever contacted you about it? I imagine there is some interest.
Thank you very much Henning; I truly appreciate it.
I totally agree, it’s sad that such a beautiful statue got destroyed. The reconstruction was a private commision from a person who fell deeply in love with the forms of the statue. I made the whole sculpture from scratch based on a few photos and even more research in terms of ornaments and original font for the base.
My client send me very good photos from different german archives and we found even a new angle of the statue within a magazine from 1902 called “Die Gartenlaube”
I it was really a challenge to make all the measurements and nail the proportions based on the few infos I had.
The dream of my client is to make a 3d printed or even small marble replica of the sculpt for an prussian exhibition. He is already in contact with the “Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz”.
Nice! I wouldn’t be surprised to one day see it come back to life as some sort of real life 3D print.
I feel like that’s something people like us could be invaluable for: recreating lost works of art we only have photographs or paintings of.
Yessss and it’s an awesome feeling to restore and preserve history
Superb work!!!!
Thank you!!!
Awesome work! Love the wrinkles on the robe!
Thank you , much appreciated