Mannerheim Monument

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Mannerheim Monument

The Mannerheim Monument is an equestrian statue of the former Commander in Chief of the Finnish Armed Forces and later Finnish President Marshal Gustaf Mannerheim .

It is located in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma on Mannerheimintie in the Finnish capital Helsinki . It was created by Aimo Tukiainen (1917–1996).

Building history

In 1952, professors from the University of Helsinki set up a private foundation in order to enable the erection of a Mannerheim memorial with donations. The memorial was inaugurated on June 4, 1960 on the occasion of his 93rd birthday.

During the construction of the new Kiasma Museum, the American architect Steven Holl suggested moving the equestrian statue a few meters, but this failed because of the bitter resistance of the population. When the construction fence was painted red in 1996, after a storm of indignation (Mannerheim was the leader of the bourgeois “whites” ) it had to be painted over gray in the area of ​​the statue.

Trivia

In June 2016 , a memorial plaque was placed in honor of Mannerheim at the Nikolayev Cavalry School in Saint Petersburg , which Mannerheim graduated from.

Individual evidence

  1. See Ulrich Quack: Reise-Handbuch Finland. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7701-7732-5 , p. 99.
  2. Cf. Robert Schediwy: Städtebilder: Reflections on the change in architecture and urbanism. LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7755-8 , p. 98.
  3. Eugen von Arb: Love-hate Russia-Finland: Dispute over the Mannerheim Memorial ( German ) September 9, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Mannerheim Monument  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 60 ° 10 ′ 17 ″  N , 24 ° 56 ′ 10 ″  E