Sochy Atlantu / Atlas Statues (Tivoli) - Brno, Czech Republic - Atlas Statues on Waymarking.com

Two small Atlas statues are located on the top of one of Tivoli palace building on address Konecného námestí 5 (Konecný Square No. 5).

Tivoli palace at Konecného sq.
"Inspired in part by residential blocks of beautiful Paris, Pawlu limited between 1894 and 1915 square Tivoli circuit by four residential blocks. They still evoke strong impressions, persuade his monumental impressiveness and demonstrate the power of creative invention of the author.

Among contemporaries, raised buildings association with the former really "cultural capital" of the whole of Europe - Paris. This century ago, the Europeans applied as a cosmopolitan center of the continent. In purely "European sense" of course - in its present form on behalf of the social laboratory sample or prototype of a globalized world had yet.

Franz Pawlu had an unfailing sense of festive effect that the houses for people who have incited and construction of buildings could graduated. He could work with each other to be the amount of time, also responded quickly to the current requirements or changes in fashion and style, so his style index extends over twenty years of work on the square of the purest Art Nouveau floral to hypermonumental neo-baroque. This is an area just a few hundred square meters, so Tivoli Square (Konecneho namesti) are sandwiched between a relatively compact unit."

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Construction Material: Stone Is this Atlas?: yes

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