Wood Breaker Sculpture - Athens, Greece
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The marble Wood Breaker, a.k.a. Wood Chopper, was moved in 1958, due to vandalism, from a small square on Amalias Avenue to across from the Old Olympic Stadium at the Zappeion National Garden at Vassilis Konstantinos Avenue in Athens, Greece.
Waymark Code: WM11JMM
Location: Greece
Date Posted: 11/02/2019
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A life size, marble, nude statue of a man with his left thigh resting on a tree stump and bending over to break a tree limb with his hands while holding the limb down with his right foot. The sculpture rests on a 6' high marble base which is inscribed:
MUNICIPALITY OF ATHENS
PREFECT
SPYROS C. MERCOURI
ERECTED
YEAR 1908
The sculpture was created by Dimitrios Filipotis in 1908 and was originally from located, from 1908 to 1958, at a small square on Amalias Avenue near to Russian Orthodox Church at Souri 1. There is was vandalized before it was restored and moved to its present location.