The Bust of Richard Wagner stands in the Promenadenring behind the opera house on the eastern slope of the Schwanenteich (Swan Pond),[1] looking west.

The larger than life bust made of dark patinated bronze is 93 centimetres (37 in) tall and rests on a simple sandstone base.

The portrait shows the mature Wagner in classically austere simplicity in a frontal view without any indication of clothing.

Max Klinger had created a Wagner bust made of white marble for the Leipzig Music Room at the 1904 World Exhibition in St. Louis.

The original plaster of Paris of the bust was brought to the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig along with two casts from the Klinger estate.