The Peacock Fountain – Pfauenbrunnen – shows three oversized peacocks, one of them throwing an impressive wheel. The Berliner sculptor and artist Margit Schötschel-Gabriel designed and built it between 1975-1979.
Oh, how I love a good water feature! Add peacocks to the fountain, oh my … If it wasn’t for the colorful buildings and some graffiti here and there, one could think time stood still.
I really shouldn’t leave my stuff that far away in a big city …
Looking at the pictures now, it is also the only fountain I saw in Berlin since Corona that actually had any water.
You will find the Peacock Fountain at Holzmarktstraße/Alexanderstraße near Jannowitzbrücke or Alexanderplatz.
So, ladies & gentlemen, is this art or kitsch?
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Love it!
It’s an odd little thing 😉
It’s soo beautiful! 😍
Thank you!
Very unique fountain… and work of art.
Art
Definitely art!!
Thank you!
I think it is art – definitely. So two questions: do Berliners toss coins and make wishes at fountains like they do here in the States and did they not allow water because they were afraid people would mingle germs, like all our community pools were closed until just recently?
They use a lot of fountains to make wishes, this one didn’t have any though. I’ve tried to google it but couldn’t find an answer. It just said all drinking fountains in Berlin are off for hygiene but nothing about water features. Maybe pretty things aren’t system relevant? Berlin is pretty broke, maybe they are saving money?
Well that’s good in a way because then people go diving into the fountains to retrieve other people’s wish money … that happens here sometimes because even in big malls, every so often they clean the fountains and they get hundreds of coins and usually give them to charity. Our City is recovering – we were in receivership for a while and lots of people moved, abandoned their houses – not good, but has gotten much better.
I doubt things are gonna get much better this year … We’ll see what fall will bring. I’d rather be on the positive site though
I’m trying to be positive too Jeanine – perhaps after a vaccine things will get better in the U.S. – sigh.
Thank you, as a real Berliner I wasn‘t aware of it.
(Autsch) als gebürtige Randberlinerin bin ich auch anscheinend unfassbar oft daran vorbei gefahren 😉 schickes Ding!
Muss ich mal hin, danke für den Tipp
Artistic kitsch! Neither / nor; either / or!
This must be the prettiest comment I ever got! (I’ll think of a way to use this later …)
Cool fountain (no pun intended!) Definitely art!
Ha ha, I didn’t even see the pun LoL !!! Peacocks to me are a bit like melted cheese. It doesn’t get much better than this 😉
Grossartig!THIS DEFINITELY IS ART….
YES! Thank you 😉
That is an impressive fountain!