Author: Elinor Teele

Wacherin Statue, Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria 2

Wächterin Sculpture, Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria 2

If you like the Wächterin, you can find Ulrike Truger’s work elsewhere in Vienna. Her abstract sculpture honoring Marcus Omofuma, a Nigerian asylum seeker who suffocated to death while protesting against his deportation, is on the Mariahilferstrasse. Her figure-based tribute to Empress Elisabeth, entitled “Elisabeth: coercion, escape, freedom,” is at

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