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Sebastian-Kneipp-Brunnen

Sebastian Kneipp Fountain

Sebastian Kneipp
Stephansried 1821-Wörishofen 1897
Bavarian priest and one of the founders of the Naturopathic medicine movement
(Wikipedia)

Carl Wollek
1912

Description

Bronze bust of Kneipp flanked by with two small figures:

left: a standing boy with a watering can and a laurel wreath and a kneeling girl with a book meine wasserkur.
right: a standing girl offering her crutch and a kneeling girl with flowers(?)

. The bust is on a stone pedestal from which water is flowing on the back a bronze stooping boy.

Inscription(s)

SEBASTIAN KNEIPP

1821 1897

Signature

C. WOLLEK FEC MCMXII

Annotation

Unveiled 29 September 191.

Sculptor

Carl Wollek (Karl Wollek, Karel Volek) (Brno 1862 - Wien 1936),
Austrian sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Kunst und Kultur Wien, Denkmäler im Bereich der Wiener Ringstraße.
Wikipedia, Wiener Stadtpark.
Stadt Wien, Kulturgut.

Locatie (N 48°12'10" - E 16°22'49") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: atwi095; Photograph: 10 September 2012
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