In Vienna, Austrian artist Hans Gasser (also, Hanns Gasser: 1817-1868) created a variety of sculptures which are clearly visible and easily found by visitor and resident alike, if they know where to look and what they’re looking. Here are some examples:
HGM: 8 statues above main entrance
Palais Ferstel: 12 statues above Café Central
Stadtpark: Little Danube fountain
Votivkirche: exterior, above main portal
Westbahnhof: Sisi statue
Wien Museum Karlsplatz: “Little Danube” statue
HGM (3.)
Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Museum of Military History), front entrance. Blue containers form part of temporary maintenance and construction works. Photo, 3 July 2024.
8 statues by Gasser: 4 above and 4 below balcony. Photo, 3 July 2024.
Palais Ferstel (1.)
I wrote previously about the legacy of one of the Vienna Ringstraße architects Heinrich Ferstel. Hans Gasser’s statues appear on one of Ferstel’s well-known “palaces” in the inner city.
Above Café Central (former home of the Austro-Hungarian Bank) are 12 statues completed by Gasser in 1855; each statue represents a “nation” within the greater Habsburg empire. Photo, 30 June 2024.
Herrengasse, 13 June 2024.
Strauchgasse, 13 June 2024.
Stadtpark (1.)
Donauweibchenbrunnen (Little Danube fountain) installed 1865 in the city’s park; replaced in 1948 with Fellinger copy and restored original now in Wien Museum Karlsplatz (see below). Photo, 19 June 2024.
Votivkirche (9.)
Photo of the Votive Church (designed by Heinrich Ferstel), 13 June 2024.
Main portal (south). Photo, 13 June 2024.Detail of The Trinity in upper gable by Gasser, over main portal. Photo (4x), 13 June 2024.
Westbahnhof (15.)
Marble statue of Empress Elisabeth (also known as “Sisi”), by Gasser in 1860. The former train station at this location was named after Empress Elisabeth. Photo, 22 June 2024.
Wien Museum Karlsplatz (4.)
Donauweibchen (“Little Danube”) statue, by Gasser, in the museum’s permanent collection This small marble figure completed in 1862 was the model for the 1865 Donauweibchenwaterfountain in Stadtpark (see above). Photo, 28 June 2024.
I made all photos with an iPhone15 in June and July 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
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