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Lion's Gate south, Coat of arms Leo, Belvedere Palace, Vienna

Limestone from Zogelsdorf, 240 cm tall, 1350 kg. 24 years after the last restoration, the decision was made for security reasons, to create a copy of the lion in shaken cast of artificial stone reinforced by fiberglass.

In 1992 the lion fell and smashed next to a japanese tourist group. Back then the restoration was commissioned to us and all fragments were sticked together, mortised and all voids were complemented.

Client: Burghauptmannschaft Austria

Project period: 2017 - 2018

Location: Belvedere Palace, Vienna

Technologies

crash 1992
(1) crash 1992
restoration 1993, Erich Pummer
(2) restoration 1993, Erich Pummer
dismantling 2017
(3) dismantling 2017
negative form, construction
(4) negative form, construction
negative form, assembly
(5) negative form, assembly
negative form
(6) negative form
copy and original
(7) copy and original
final image
(8) final image
Lion's Gate
(9) Lion's Gate

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