Photographer's Note
Un début du crépuscule dans le parc à Łazienki, seule en face de Chopin aussi esseulé, dans le froid hivernal. Et pour cause. Cette partie du parc était isolée du reste, pour faire des aménagements et des travaux, donc fermée pour le public.
Chopin dans la tristesse et mélancolie, plus que jamais...
Plus information sur cette statue, cette fois-ci en anglais.
Wikipédia
The Chopin Statue is a large bronze statue of Frédéric Chopin that now stands in the upper part of Warsaw's Royal Baths Park aka Łazienki Park, adjacent to Aleje Ujazdowskie (Ujazdów Avenue).
It was designed in 1907 by Wacław Szymanowski for its planned erection on the centenary of Chopin's birth in 1910, but its execution was delayed by controversy about the design, then by the outbreak of World War I. The statue was finally cast and erected in 1926.
During World War II, the statue was blown up on May 31, 1940. It was the first monument that was destroyed by the occupying Germans in Warsaw. According to local legend, the next day a handwritten sign was found at the site which read: "I don’t know who destroyed me, but I know why: so that I won’t play the funeral march for your leader."
The original mould for the statue, which had survived the war, made it possible to cast a replica, which was placed at the original site in 1958. At the statue's base, since 1959, on summer Sunday afternoons are performed free piano recitals of Chopin's compositions.
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Photo Information
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Copyright: Elisabeth Kofman (Kofman)
(1737) - Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2013-02-08
- Categories: Artwork
- Exposure: f/5.6, 1/100 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2013-02-28 2:36









