The Wächterin (“Guardian”) stands sentinel on the Ringstrasse, on the lawn in front of the Burgtheater. The vulture-like sculpture was created by the modern artist Ulrike Truger in A.D. 1988. Soon after she finished the work, a series of letter bombs hit Austria. People who spoke out for immigrants were

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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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