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who wrote to Hubacher at the end of January 1942 that he would like to donate a figure to the city of Zurich and that it would have to be a male figure, since Zurich already had many female ones. Furthermore, it would have to be of strict form, so that the regularity and beauty of the building comes
118:(1840-1920) work, who has Ganymede lifted up by the eagle, absorbed in a dream and wrapped in ribbons of cloth. Hubacher interprets the imminent translocation quite differently, namely illustrating through the hand stretched towards the sky that it is Ganymede himself asking Zeus to take him up. 109:
Ganymede and the eagle face each other as a larger-than-life bronze sculpture. Ganymede stretches his right arm vertically towards the sky away from the bird, while the latter tries to communicate with the youth. In contrast to the traditional saga in which Ganymede was abducted, pictorial
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was introduced in Switzerland. Wölfflin had recognised that the male ideal of beauty was clearly underrepresented compared to female representations in the townscape. This has not changed until the beginning of the 21st century.
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celebrated the new sculpture with the words "the work of art most beautifully refutes the assertion of the inferiority of our inclination and becomes a striking means of struggle against prejudice and lack of understanding.
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that he is completely taken in by its beauty and praises the figure to the utmost. Above all, he loves the lifelike and natural appearance.
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world of legend is considered a male ideal of beauty. According to the german-language based daily newspaper
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Wölfflin donated the work to the city of Zurich, which inaugurated it in a ceremony on 20 June 1952.
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The initiative and the commission for the design of the figure came from the art historian
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through. It was also important to him that the architectural framework was very definite.
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The bronze is both signed by Hubacher and intended for the donor Wölfflin.
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struggling infant to the fully bloomed young man in
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Ganymede
Bürkliplatz
Lake Zurich
Hermann Hubacher
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Ganymede
God the Father Zeus
Heinrich Wölfflin
impunity
homosexuality
Rembrandt's
Briton Rivière's
Karl Meier
Der Kreis
Ganymed
mythological
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Der Kreis
"Bürkliterrasse | Ausflüge am Zürichsee"
"'Do women have to be naked to be shown in Zurich's public space?'"
S:The Works of J. W. von Goethe/Volume 9/Ganymede
The Works of J. W. von Goethe, Volume 9
"A Secret Life in Zurich"
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