In 1857, the Schongauer Society, which manages the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, commissioned the sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi to create a monument to the memory of the artist Martin Schongauer, a native of Colmar. Bartholdi created a monument weighing several tons, consisting of a pedestal in the form of a fountain decorated with four basins. The ensemble was topped by a pink sandstone statue of Schongauer. The monument, which stood in the centre of the cloister garden for almost a century, has been dismantled into two parts. The fountain is now in front of a church in Colmar, and the statue is displayed in the north gallery of the museum’s cloister.