Lederstrumpfbrunnen

Public sculpture in Edenkoben, Germany

49°16′57.2″N 8°7′39.2″E / 49.282556°N 8.127556°E / 49.282556; 8.127556

The Lederstrumpfbrunnen (literally: leatherstocking fountain) is a fountain in the German city of Edenkoben. It commemorates the frontiersman Johann Adam Hartmann (1748-1836), who was born in this city and considered by some as a possible inspiration for the character Natty Bumppo of the Leatherstocking Tales novels by the American writer James Fenimore Cooper.^[1]^[2]

The three main sculptures around the fountain are Hartman/Bumppo depicted as a hunter with a rifle and accompanied by a dog, the Indian chief Chingachgook (another famous character from the novels) and the artist Max Slevogt (1868-1932), who created some of the best known illustrations for the German editions of the novels.^[3]^[4]

The fountain was designed between 1987 and 1990 by the German sculptor Gernot Rumpf.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Gisela Atteln, Helmuth Bischoff: DuMont Reise-Taschenbuch Reiseführer Rhein-Neckar. DuMont, 2010, p. 221 (German)
^ Carl Suesser: War Lederstrumpf ein Deutscher?. In: Westermanns Monatshefte. Illustrierte Deutsche Zeitschrift. Mai 1934. Braunschweig 1934, pp. 245–249 (German)
^ http://www.landesmuseum-mainz.de/ausstellungen/ausstellungsarchiv/slevogt-neue-wege-des-impressionismus/highlights/ (German, retrieved 2017-06-22)
^ Stephanie Jacobs: Wider den 'Unrat der Gründerjahre'. Paul Cassirer und die Pan-Presse. In: Rahel E. Feilchenfeldt-Steiner (ed.), Thomas Raff (ed.): Ein Fest der Künste: Paul Cassirer : der Kunsthändler als Verleger. C. H. Beck, 2006, p. 108 (German)