Grillparzer Monument
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The Grillparzer statue is a larger-than-life sitting image of Franz Grillparzer by sculptor Carl Kundmann (1838-1919) made of Lasa marble that sits in Vienna’s Volksgarten.
Carl von Hasenauer (1833-1894) designed the architectural elements.
A commission directed by Johann Adolf II zu Schwarzenberg and under the patronage of Archduke Carl Ludwig granted the contract to Kundmann (first tender, 1876) and Rudolf Weyr (second tender, 1877), whose fundamental plan of the semicircle with a relief wall was also realized.Grillparzer’s monument was unveiled on May 23, 1889, 17 years after his death.
Reliefs on the semi-elliptical wall behind the monument portray scenes from the poet’s well-known dramas: The Ancestor, The Dream a Life, King Ottokar’s Fortune and End, Sappho, Medea, and The Waves of the Sea and Love, from left to right.Rudolf Weyr (1847-1914), the sculptor, designed all of the reliefs.
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- Address : 1010 Vienna, Austria
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