Decorative wall fountain boy with dolphin
The two decorative wall fountains, Boy with Dolphin, are fountains in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City .
History and description
The building of today's Academy of Sciences at Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz was built as the new auditorium of the old university between 1753 and 1755 according to plans by Jean Nicolas Jadot de Ville-Issey with the collaboration of Johann Enzenhofer, Daniel Christoph Dietrich and Johann Adam Münzer built.
On the facade there are two wall fountains on the corner projections on both sides of the main entrance. It is not known which artist created these two fountains. They are attributed to Franz Joseph Lenzbauer.
What the two wall fountains have in common is the elongated water basin made of Wöllersdorfer stone , under the wall niches designed with shell ornaments.
- Left fountain: On a rock pedestal adorned with foliage, a frog and a snake, there is a seated fountain bowl. A playing boy with a sword in his hand rides on the dolphin that serves as a gargoyle.
- Right well: On a rock pedestal adorned with a turtle and lizards, there is a seated well bowl. Here, too, a boy is riding on the dolphin spitting water, but he is holding a three-cornered hat pointing towards the dolphin in his hand.
See also
literature
- DEHIO Vienna - I. District Inner City . Berger, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 .
- Josef Donner: The spring jumps up - water in the cityscape - A Viennese fountain encyclopedia (1st district) , 1st volume, Austrian Association for the Gas and Water Sector ÖVGW, Vienna, 1998
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '31.4 " N , 16 ° 22' 38.6" E