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Saarstraße 21
(Universitätsgelände - Botanischer Garten)

Guillaume Fichet

(Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, Savoy, c. 1433 - Rome c. 1480)
Rector of Sorbonne in Paris in 1470; introduced Gutenberg's art of printing in France
(Wikipedia)

Octave Simon & Lionel Auvergne
1939/2001

Description

Bronze statue of Fichet, with a bronze socle. On his sides are allegorical figures for printing technology and Fichet's literary work.

Inscription(s)

Signed: octave simon

Annotation

After a 1939 sketch by Octave Simon two identical statues of Fichet were cast under the direction of Lionel Auvergne. Fichet was an ancestor of Simon's mother. One of the two sculptures was donated in December 2000 to the Cité Universitaire in Paris, the other was a donation of the city of Mainz to the University. It was officially inaugurated in the Botanical Garden on 9 May 2001.

Sculptors

Lionel Auvergne (Nice 1952), French sculptor (Website).
Octave Simon (Lyon 1914 - Konzentrationslager Groß-Rosen 1944), French sculptor and secret agent during World War II (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Hrsg.): Kunstlandschaft Campus (2006) (PDF on-line).

Locatie (N 49°59'28" - E 8°14'33") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: derp206; Photograph: 1 October 2012
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