Johann Christoph Friedrich von
Schiller Monument, 1886
Ernst Bilhauer Rau
Lincoln Park
Conservatory Garden
East of North Stockton
Drive on axis with West Webster Avenue
Chicago public sculpture includes many examples of
donations made by immigrant groups to honor important figures from their
homelands. This monument to the German playwright and poet Schiller is a
replica of an original bronze that stands in Marbach, his birthplace in
southwest Germany. A committee of German citizens hired William Pelargus, an
artist from Stuttgart, to recast the original monument designed by Ernst Rau.
The granite base was carved by Lake View stonecutter John Gall. Schiller wrote
about human freedom and the capacity for moral action and his poem “Ode to Joy”
was used as the chorale finale of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
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