Georg Kolbe, a principal German sculpture in the post-war period, created this piece "1914-1918, You Are Not In Vain," in 1935, unaware that his country, and the Nazis who sponsored his work, would soon lead the world into another great war.
This fine-looking piece of art reclines at the Augustus Memorial fountain in Augsburg.
Two of the many nude figures that pepper the park next to the 17th-Century Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin.
While the previous men play in the forest, this nude warrior defends the Palace from invaders.
You can't go for a run without encountering on of Kolbe's nudes in Berlin.
For years it was thought this man, created by Roman sculptor Cleomenes, was Germanicus, the Roman general for which Germany's named, but scholars now think it may just be some random rich kid. Either way, this bronze replica looks nice at Charlottenburg.
That same sculpture, from a different angle but looking just as well-rounded.
One works in the garden of the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin.
Two men welcome visitors at the Georg Kolbe Museum's garden.
This rendering of Hercules slays a stray hydra atop a fountain in Augsburg. The fountain, created by Adriaen de Vries in 1597, represents man's potential to conquer nature.
Eberhard Encke's 1913 work Faustkämpfer, "fist-fighter," can be found in Hamburg.
Here Prussian sculptor Louis Tuaillon shows Hercules wrestling the Erymanthian Boar in Berlin's Luetzowplatz Park.
Tuaillon's "The Charioteer" leads his horse in Wallanlagen Park in the town of Bremen