Thread....Do you have photos of STATUES??

The eclusier, lock keeper at the ecluse d Pucheric had a sense of humour

A statue for a liquor. In Schierke in Germany (Harz) they produce a liquor from herbs 35%. tast good.

Cake Tower, is seven meters high and weighs 3.5 tons. Its author is Slovak Andrej Margoč, and according to him, it is a cream puff, which he stacked on top of each other. "The Cake Tower sculpture is part of a series that the artist has dedicated to the fight against the subtle and silent killer of sugar and sugar addiction."

Fortunately, it will be installed there only for one year.

Czech writer and cat lover Bohumil Hrabal (woodcut)

Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC - 18 AD) describes in his magnificent work Metamorphoses in Book 14, called Niobe, the fable that inspired the statue of the kneeling youth.
The Klatovy statue of Ilioneus is a cast-iron copy of the original marble statue. The original dates from the end of the 4th century BC. The first mention of the torso is from 1562, when the statue appears in the collection of Cardinal da Capri. The ancient Parian marble torso was bought in Rome in 1603 by Hans von Aachen for the collection of Emperor Rudolf II. This is how the statue came to our territory. After the death of Rudolf II, his extraordinary collection met an unfortunate fate. Ilioneus ended up in the cellars of Prague Castle. In 1783, Emperor Joseph II ordered the cellars to be cleaned out and the remains of the once magnificent collection ended up at auction. This ancient torso was also sold. The new owner was Josef Malínský, a stone mason from the Lesser Town in Prague. From him, the torso went to Vienna and became the property of Josef Barth, professor of anatomy. According to Barth's anatomical concept, the sculptor Johann Martin Fischer modelled the missing head and hands. Sometime before 1815, Count Hugo Franz Salm, the owner of the Blannen ironworks, visited Professor Barth. After seeing the Ilion, he conceived the idea of casting ancient statues as decorative objects for the castle parks. He bought a plaster model from Professor Barth and then models of other ancient statues and took them to Blansko. Barth sold the original marble torso in 1815 to Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, the founder of the Munich Glyptothek, where it still forms part of the collection. Salm's smelter in Blansko was the only one in the whole monarchy capable of satisfying any artistic project of an excellent standard. In 1831, the Blansko Ironworks won a gold medal at the Prague Industrial Exhibition for the cast iron castings of Ilion and Bacchus. This was followed by an award at the General Exhibition of Handicrafts in Vienna in 1835. Count Salm presented the statue of Ilioneus to the poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe when he visited him in Weimar.

I think the history of the statue is very interesting. I apologize if my text is not completely understandable, I speak very little English, so I use the program DeepL.

The Knight with the Dragon from 1995, Jaroslav Róna (27 April 1957, Prague, is a Czech sculptor and painter), stands on the highest point of Klenová Castle.

Lubos-PM wrote in post #19266659
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC - 18 AD) describes in his magnificent work Metamorphoses in Book 14, called Niobe, the fable that inspired the statue of the kneeling youth.
The Klatovy statue of Ilioneus is a cast-iron copy of the original marble statue. The original dates from the end of the 4th century BC. The first mention of the torso is from 1562, when the statue appears in the collection of Cardinal da Capri. The ancient Parian marble torso was bought in Rome in 1603 by Hans von Aachen for the collection of Emperor Rudolf II. This is how the statue came to our territory. After the death of Rudolf II, his extraordinary collection met an unfortunate fate. Ilioneus ended up in the cellars of Prague Castle. In 1783, Emperor Joseph II ordered the cellars to be cleaned out and the remains of the once magnificent collection ended up at auction. This ancient torso was also sold. The new owner was Josef Malínský, a stone mason from the Lesser Town in Prague. From him, the torso went to Vienna and became the property of Josef Barth, professor of anatomy. According to Barth's anatomical concept, the sculptor Johann Martin Fischer modelled the missing head and hands. Sometime before 1815, Count Hugo Franz Salm, the owner of the Blannen ironworks, visited Professor Barth. After seeing the Ilion, he conceived the idea of casting ancient statues as decorative objects for the castle parks. He bought a plaster model from Professor Barth and then models of other ancient statues and took them to Blansko. Barth sold the original marble torso in 1815 to Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, the founder of the Munich Glyptothek, where it still forms part of the collection. Salm's smelter in Blansko was the only one in the whole monarchy capable of satisfying any artistic project of an excellent standard. In 1831, the Blansko Ironworks won a gold medal at the Prague Industrial Exhibition for the cast iron castings of Ilion and Bacchus. This was followed by an award at the General Exhibition of Handicrafts in Vienna in 1835. Count Salm presented the statue of Ilioneus to the poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe when he visited him in Weimar.

I think the history of the statue is very interesting. I apologize if my text is not completely understandable, I speak very little English, so I use the program DeepL.

Appreciate the interesting story Lubos
The translation has come out okay. You've done well

Sepia from 1999 - sculptor Jaroslav Róna, standing on the hill below Klenová Castle

Modern Art in gallery Klenová - Author Krištof Kintera (*1973 Prague) "There is no way to go now". At first I thought someone had just put the bikes down...

Interesting history! It must weight a lot, as cast iron is heavier than marble.

As an aside, my own home language is not English either, but the translation seems good to me

Crikey Lubos, the bikes look like something from le Tour du France!

I am afraid that I just don't understand so called modern art

Piet, your English is better than My French and I lived there for 13 years I think that I will stick to my wood turning and RC model building/flying

Bonaventure

Cyclist statue from Hanko, Finland.
This statue represents Hanko so nicely, they still make bicycles here and most of the year it's windy.

The Hermanns monument in Detmold Germany (Teutenburgerwald) The total height of the monument is 53,44 meter and built bij Ernst von Bandel

Trifot is a 12-metre long walking sculpture made by David Černý and was tailor-made for the Czech Photo Centre gallery (Prague) in front of which it is located. David Černý was inspired by the walking plant from John Wyndham's legendary science fiction novel The Day of the Triffids. The stainless steel creature Trifot is made up of a tripod and a head, which is made up of real cameras that evoke the evolution of photographic technology in the history of mankind - from the bellows camera, to Canon and Nikon cameras. These cameras form the eyes in Trifot's face. The head includes a model of the Leica device that was sent to the moon.