Berlin 2023 – Alte Nationalgalerie – Monument for Count Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz Alexander von der Mark

From Wikipedia: “Count Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz Alexander von der Mark ("the Anderchen") (* 4. January 1779; † 1. August 1787 in Berlin) was an illegitimate son of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia and his lover, Countess Wilhelmine von Lichtenau.

After his father's accession to the throne in 1786, he and his sister Marianne von der Mark were elevated to the nobility with the count's title of the House of Mark, which was extinct in 1609 and inherited by the Prussian Hohenzollern. It cannot be completely ruled out that the half-brother of the later King Friedrich Wilhelm III was poisoned the following year. The latter had Countess Lichtenau arrested and expropriated immediately after the death of her father in 1797.”

This monument was first in the Dorotheenstadt Church, but when that church was demolished in 1965, it was moved to the Alte Nationalgalerie.