500 Years of German Rabbits
Photo credit: Andrea Sohler or John Marburg photography Berlin
While doing some research on potential printeresting mascots, I stumbled across this phenomenal piece by German artist Ottmar Hörl. Using the power of the multiple, Hörl’s sculpture/installations are expansive. This particular work, The Large Piece of Rabbit, replicates in three dimensions Dürer’s famous watercolor/gouache drawing, A Young Hare. Hörl installed the piece in Nuremburg’s Old Town in 2003 to celebrate the Dürer drawing’s 500th anniversary. In case you’re wondering, there was no explanation for the color choice.
Below is a Google-translated (yikes!) excerpt from the press release:
That “classic” in the art is not necessarily an equally dusty as elitist matter for experts, but also inspiration and vitality in the here and now mean – that has the Nuremberg rabbit birthday last year proved. On the occasion of the anniversary 500ten by Albrecht Dürer’s famous painting “A young hare” had Sebalder in the Old Town and an art festival celebrated for the nationwide uproar in the sketches provided. Of course, Nuremberg’s most famous son again this year 500 years ago a genius String delivered. And because the celebrations must, as they fall, committing Nuremberg in the coming August anniversary of Dürer’s “great lawn”.
And a little more:
The idea of the serial also has a major strategic advantage: “The original rabbit hangs in the Albertina in Vienna,” says Hörl, “once again be the Nuremberg her rabbit not stolen. If one or other of my rabbits to Tokyo or San Francisco Go this makes nothing. There are still plenty of rabbits in Nuremberg. “ Excellent idea: Rabbit and Hedgehog exchange roles. Whoever in the future the Nuremberg her favorite animal but does not, will the wundlaufen hoes, and where he also nachschaut just that: the hare is always already there.
I think we can all agree with that sentiment- the hare is always already there.
