Great Hephaestus II
The sculpture Great Hephaestus II in Bremen - Schwachhausen , Schwachhauser Heerstraße 240; in the park of Gut Riensberg is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .
The sculpture from 1991 made of bronze on a concrete base comes from the sculptor Waldemar Otto . The figure belongs to the sculptor's mythological work cycle. The male nude turns slightly into a pedestal torso. The sculpture was donated by Stadtwerke Bremen .
Hephaestus is the god of fire in Greek mythology . He is the abandoned husband of Aphrodite , the goddess of love, beauty and desire. Hephaestus therefore struggles with his loneliness in his forge. He was responsible for the entire artistic spectrum of metalworking.
From Otto (* 1952) come from Bremen a. a. nor the bronze works such as encounter (1976) in Vegesack , mass sport (1979) on the boulevard of the university , Zurschicht (1983) in Gröpelingen , corner of Lindenhofstrasse / Dockstrasse, Großer Bacchus II (1992) in Hemelingen , Hannoversche Strasse 64, the Neptune fountain ( 1993) on the Domshof and Agamemnon (2003) in Mitte , President-Kennedy-Platz .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 28.1 ″ N , 8 ° 51 ′ 49 ″ E