Marc Anton Monument
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The Marc Anton Monument , often referred to as the Marc Anton Group, on Friedrichstrasse and next to the Vienna Secession building in the Austrian capital, Vienna, is a large bronze sculpture from the years 1899/1900. It was created by the Secession artist Arthur Strasser for the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 and then installed next to the Secession building. It shows the Roman general and politician Mark Antony in a triumphal chariot with a team of lions.
The statue is popularly referred to as "Löwenfiaker".
history
Arthur Strasser, member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus (1886–91 and 1907–27) as well as the Munich and Vienna Secession (1898–1900), created in 1896 the almost 50 cm large, green patinated plaster model “Marc Anton in the triumphal chariot”. It was shown in Berlin as well as at the Vienna Künstlerhaus exhibition in 1896 and he received the Reichel Prize for it . The Ministry of Education bought the model and commissioned Strasser to produce an identical plaster model with 5/3 life size for a bronze cast, which was made for the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 and cast in the kuk Kunst-Erzgießerei Vienna (Gusshausstraße). The sculpture was then to be placed on Babenbergerstrasse at the Kunsthistorisches Museum . In fact, between December 20, 1900 and March 5, 1901, a “provisional” installation took place in the garden next to the Secession building, which became a permanent installation. During a bombing of Vienna on February 7, 1945, it was riddled with fragments and restored in 1956.
The Marc Anton Group was dismantled and restored in 2005 as part of the extensive redesign of Karlsplatz to the “Kunstplatz Karlsplatz” and the conversion of the Karlsplatz underground station and the construction of a depot for the Secession. This cost around 100,000 euros and the plastic, which weighs around 4 tons, was then placed on a higher pedestal, "so that in future fewer tourists will ride the lion".
description
The sculpture shows the Roman general and statesman Marcus Antonius leaning back comfortably in a chariot pulled by a team of three lions, and to the right of the chariot there is a guided lioness who hugs the chariot with her eyes closed. The lion team in step position consists of a male lion in the middle and two lionesses, which are stepped pyramidal in their position as well as in height. The figure Marc Antonius is shown very bulky, is dressed in a tunic and has a toga across his body . The chariot is very detailed and has six relief strips on the semicircular rear wall, in which scenes from the life of Marc Anton are depicted.
With the lazy and corpulent depiction of the Roman general, the statue shows the features of decadence , which the artists of the Secession had taken on. The fin de siecle , which z. B. Arthur Schnitzler shows " Lieutenant Gustl " is tangible in this bronze sculpture.
literature
- Felix Czeike : Vienna. Art and culture lexicon. City guide and manual ; Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1976, p. 73
- VGI: Modeling of terrestrial laser scanner data using the example of Marc-Anton-Plastik ; Osterreichische Zeitschrift für Vermessung und Geoinformation 91 (4) 2003, pp. 288–296 ( online )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Beppo Beyerl : The Naschmarkt. Edition MoKKa, Vienna 2009, p. 186
- ^ Austrian Gallery Belvedere : Arthur Strasser ; accessed on 21 Sep. 2017
- ↑ Austrian Galerie Belvedere: Belvedere: Journal of Fine Arts , Volume 12, 2006
- ↑ a b Georg Kolmanitsch: Maintenance and measures concept for bronzes outdoors using the example of the Marc Anton monument Vienna Secession ; Diploma thesis, University of Applied Arts, Vienna 2003 ( online )
- ^ Marc Anton group in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Vienna, City Hall correspondence dated December 2, 2004: Concept for the "Kunstplatz Karlsplatz"
- ^ Austria Forum : Marc Anton Group ; accessed on 21 Sep. 2017
- ↑ The Standard : Marc Anton's lions give way to a pit ; Print edition from March 9, 2005
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 2.1 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 58.3 ″ E