File:Widnau Sculptur Schwörfinger.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(2,592 × 4,608 pixels, file size: 2.56 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Albert Wider: Creation   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Albert Wider  (1910–1985) wikidata:Q69111286
 
Albert Wider
Description Swiss painter, drawer and sculptor
Date of birth/death 28 March 1910 Edit this at Wikidata 9 March 1985 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Widnau Widnau
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q69111286
Photographer
Title
Creation
Description
The sculpture, consisting of a bronze sculpture on a light-coloured stone block, depicts the Genesis Creation story. Centrally, a dominant right hand rises vertically above an irregularly round form in front of a cloud-like mass of water. It is the hand that separates light from darkness and heaven from earth. Each bears as its title the ordinal number of the day in question in the story of Creation. On the circular base of the metal sculpture, medallion-like reliefs symbolise the first six days of Creation story. The seventh day is in the process of creation: To the left of the creating hand, an angular form with the heading 7. Tag (7th Day) forms from the surges. A protruding band runs horizontally centred over the sides of the stone cuboid on which the metal sculpture stands, the width of which corresponds to about half the height of the coboid. On the front it says SCHÖPFUNG (i. e. Creation) at the top right of this band.
The sculpture is located between the Catholic St Joseph's Church and the cemetery in Widnau, Canton St Gallen, Switzerland.
Date 1983
date QS:P571,+1983-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium bronze mounted on stone
Inscriptions

Title front:

SCHÖPFUNG
[Creation]
on the stone cuboid
                      Signature and date:  
Wider, 1983

on the right of relief 2. Tag
                      Text on the side surface of the round metal base:  
GESTIFTET A. D. 1983 VON BENEDIKT UND ELSIE FEHR, OTTO UND VIKY FREI, ERNST UND MATHILDE MENZI, HUGO UND HANELORE SPIRIG
[Donated A. D. 1983 by Benedikt and Elsie Fehr, Otto and Viky Frei, Ernst and Mathilde Menzi, Hugo and Hannelore Spirig]
Source/Photographer Own work
Camera location47° 24′ 14″ N, 9° 38′ 19″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

[edit]
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current10:41, 8 February 2020Thumbnail for version as of 10:41, 8 February 20202,592 × 4,608 (2.56 MB)Gamemaster669 (talk | contribs)User created page with UploadWizard

The following page uses this file:

Metadata