GERMANY, 200 Jahre Köningliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin [Bicentenary of the...

Vogel, August (German, 1859-1932); b. Berlin, and Otto Oertel (Berlin, fl. 1887-1938) GERMANY, 200 Jahre Köningliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin [Bicentenary of the Royal Academy of Sciences], 1900, a large bronze plaque by A. Vogel [for O. Oertel], four robed females representing the personifications of Science seated in a semi-circle around a fountain, above which a naked female is seated facing on a walled parapet, holding a mirror and supporting a veil, trees behind, rev. a triptych, in the elevated central field an eagle flying towards a constellation of stars, sea below, to left and right legends in eight lines with names of the founders and those of the then principal current members, 197 x 165mm, 820.57g (DGMK 8, 786; Wurzb. 701; BDM VI, 303; cf. MDC 15 [Maier], 431). About extremely fine, very rare in the large size £150-£200 --- Provenance: Bt Münz Zentrum Rheinland June 2005. The academy was founded on 11 July 1700 by Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg. He appointed the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) as its first president, who planned and developed the academy together with the theologian and bishop Daniel Ernst Jablonski (1660-1741)