Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Statue monumentale dite Schweissdissi
Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La statue monumentale, y compris son piédestal composé de rochers (cad. MZ 46) : inscription par arrêté du 4 mars 2008
- Protection dates
- 2008/03/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1905
- Architect or builder
- Beer Frantz (sculpteur)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue du Tivoli
- Commune
- Mulhouse
- Département
- Haut-Rhin
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.74294, 7.34774
- Mérimée reference
- PA68000054
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1890 map "Swiss Topo Map 1890" (swisstopo — Federal Office of Topography).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Statue commandée au sculpteur Frantz Beer en 1905 par les chemins de fer suisses pour l'inauguration du tunnel de Simplon. Rejetée par son commanditaire initial, elle fut acquise par la ville de Mulhouse qui projetait l'aménagement de sa place de l'hôtel de ville. Montée sur un piédestal au centre d'une vaste fontaine à jets, entre le temple Saint-Étienne et l'hôtel de ville, la statue fut surnommée Schweissdissi par les Mulhousiens. La sculpture allégorique du travail, qui constituait aussi un hommage aux masses laborieuses, ne fut exposée que de 1906 à 1909 suite aux pétitions pour son emplacement jugé non conforme au caractère historique du lieu. L’œuvre fut déplacée près du parc du Tivoli. L’œuvre vaut aussi par la qualité de sa plastique et son style réaliste, tout en se référant à la grande tradition italienne des sculptures monumentales urbaines de la Renaissance. Elle fut conçue à Florence, d'où le contraposto, l'équilibre académique des proportions, la quasi nudité.
English translation
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History
Statue commissioned from sculptor Frantz Beer in 1905 by the Swiss railways for the inauguration of the Simplon tunnel. Rejected by its initial patron, it was acquired by the city of Mulhouse which planned the development of its town hall square. Mounted on a pedestal at the centre of a vast fountain with jets, between the Saint-Étienne temple and the town hall, the statue was nicknamed Schweissdissi by the people of Mulhouse. The allegorical sculpture of labour, which also constituted a tribute to the labouring masses, was only exhibited from 1906 to 1909 following petitions against its location deemed unsuitable to the historical character of the place. The work was moved near the Tivoli park. The work is also valued for the quality of its plastic form and its realistic style, while referring to the great Italian tradition of urban monumental sculptures of the Renaissance. It was conceived in Florence, whence the contrapposto, the academic balance of proportions, the near nudity.
Nearby in the register
- Immeuble bordant le square de la Bourseimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Immeuble dit Bâtiment annulaireimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Anciennes fortificationsfortificationunder 1 mi
- Ancien hôtel de ville, actuellement Musée historiquehôtel de villeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.