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Lessing Monument
The monument in 2007

Artist	Otto Lessing
Location	Berlin, Germany 52°30′43″N 13°22′30″E / 52.5119°N 13.3750°E / 52.5119; 13.3750

The Lessing Monument (German: Lessing-Denkmal) is a monument in the Neo-Baroque style, and dedicated to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Otto Lessing, installed at Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany.^[1]

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↑ Mehring, Franz (1893). Die Lessing-Lengende. Verlag nicht ermittelbar. Retrieved September 30, 2026.

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Media related to Genius of Humanity (Monument to Lessing) at Wikimedia Commons

Public art and memorials in Berlin

Portrait sculpture

Other memorials

Nazism · WWII	Homosexuals persecuted under Fascism The murdered Jews of Europe Murdered members of the Reichstag Polish soldiers and German anti-Fascists Sinti and Roma victims Soviet war memorials Schönholzer Heide Tiergarten Treptower Park Trains to Life – Trains to Death Victims of "euthanasia" killings
Berlin Wall	Freedom Memorial (removed) Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer The Parliament of Trees White Crosses

Other works

Museum Island	Amazone zu Pferde (August Kiss) Centaur and Nymph Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft Gerettet Hercules and the Nemean Lion Hunne zu Pferde Löwe Löwenkämpfer Mercury and Psyche Prometheus Bound and the Oceanids The Sower
Schlossbrücke	Athena Arms the Warrior Athena Leads the Young Warrior into the Fight Athena Protects the Young Hero Athena Teaches the Young Man How to Use a Weapon Iris Takes the Fallen Hero to Olympus Nike Assists the Wounded Warrior Nike Crowns the Hero Nike Instructs the Boy in Heroic History
Tiergarten	Altgermanische Wisentjagd Amazone zu Pferde (Louis Tuaillon) Bison Churfürstliche Fuchsjagd Eberjagd um 1500 Hasenhatz zur Rokokozeit Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar Pony und Knappe Der Rufer Volksgesang

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East Side Gallery Lapidarium United Buddy Bears

v t e Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Works	The Jews (1754) Miss Sara Sampson (1755) Minna von Barnhelm (1767) Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767–69) Emilia Galotti (1772) Nathan the Wise (1779)
Other	Hamburg National Theatre Eva König (wife) Lessing Monument Lessing Theater

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