Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 100 copies
Peace defended by Arms (Friede beschützt durch Waffen) was a memorial in the town of Quedlinburg in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. The base of the monument, which is now used as a memorial, was preserved. The model for the group "Peace protected by weapons" was created in 1889 by Ludwig Manzel.
For this he received the Grand State Prize of the Academy of Arts. On the initiative of the Prussian Minister of Culture Robert Bosse, who came from Quedlinburg, the cast bronze group of figures came to Quedlinburg, where it was installed in 1898. The memorial showed a warrior with a spear, protecting a partially undressed young woman looking up at him with his shield. The figures stood on a high plinth. In 1899 Manzel showed a marble partial copy of the group (the female head) at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. This partial copy or an identical version in marble was erected in 1936 on Manzel's tomb in the Südwestkirchhof in Stahnsdorf near Potsdam.
After the end of the Second World War, the Quedlinburg memorial is said to have been removed on August 16, 1945 at the instigation of the Soviet occupation authorities, with the base remaining intact. Today (as of 2013) there is a plaque in front of the base with the inscription: In memory of the victims of oppression and war. The plinth and plaque are not entered in the Quedlinburg register of monuments.
