Dr Claudia Czok

Dr Claudia Czok, born in 1964, is an art historian and freelance exhibition curator. After studying in Halle and completing her doctorate on Schadow’s drawings, she worked at Kunstgalerie Gera, the Berlin Academy of Arts and the Kupferstichkabinett. She currently works at the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Secret State Archives, GStA). She is a member of the board of trustees of the Schadow Gesellschaft Berlin e. V. and has taken on a sponsorship for the Darjes monument in Frankfurt (Oder). She curated the exhibitions “Unser Schadow” (2014) and “Ich. Menzel” (2015) for the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin.

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The horse’s head on the Quadriga

This horse’s head is all that remains of the original Quadriga, the sculpture that sits atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. But why did sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850) design the Quadriga in the first place? And what role did Napoleon play in it?

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