Bear at Market square Wroclaw, Poland
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Arne1
N 51° 06.567 E 017° 01.907
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Quick Description: replica of E. M. Geyger's rather kitsch fountain with bronze cast bear - the superstitious tourist should touch the nose for good luck
Location: Dolnośląskie, Poland
Date Posted: 11/19/2012 8:16:41 AM
Waymark Code: WMFQKB
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Long Description:
The Breslau Bear
The world’s only true copy of Ernest Moritz Geyger’s Bärenbrunnen (Bear Well, 1902) was commissioned and given to the Brown University in Providence by T.F. Green in 1931. The original, now lost, had been installed outside the town hall of Breslau, Germany, in 1904. It's a copy made in 1998 by sculpturer R. Zamorski.
Name of statue: Malay Bear
Name of creator: Ernest Moritz Geygher / R. Zamorski
Material: bronze
Additional Coordinates: Not Listed
Date created: Not listed
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