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    (also known as the "Gies Eagle", or "Fat Hen") (1953), which is hung at the front of the Plenary Hall of the Reichstag in Berlin. Gies was born in Munich...
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  • Look up gies in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gies is a surname of Germanic origin. It is either a patronymic surname, Gies being a form of the old...
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    around a black granite block with an oak wreath designed by the sculptor Ludwig Gies, situated under an oculus (circular skylight). The Neue Wache was then...
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    Mango Fruits, 1889, painted oak, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Kopenhagen Ludwig Gies, cast iron plaquette, 8 x 9.8 cm, inscribed "1914·VERTRIEBEN·1915" =...
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    commemorative medal by Ludwig Gies, 1915. Shows Lusitania packed with people, lowering lifeboats. An unsympathetic later medal, also by Gies. Shows ship as a...
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    Ludwig Gies, cast iron plaquette, 8 x 9.8 cm, Refugees, 1915...
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    Lyonel Feininger Conrad Felixmüller Otto Freundlich Xaver Fuhr [de] Ludwig Gies Werner Gilles Otto Gleichmann Rudolf Großmann George Grosz Hans Grundig...
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    the Kölner Werkschulen with Wolfgang Wallner and Ludwig Gies. In 1952, he was a master student of Gies, famous for the art of coin cutting. In 1954, he...
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    de Cologne Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766), founder of Eau de Cologne Ludwig Gies (1887–1966), sculptor Robert Görlinger (1888–1954), mayor 1948 to 1949...
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    wrought-iron balcony balustrade by the sculptor Ludwig Gies have been preserved. Fifteen years later, Gies created the Federal Eagle on the front of the...
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