Caryatids - Vienna, Austria - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

The Palais Epstein is a building in Vienna with a varied history. It has been a banker's home, a Nazi office building, A Soviet headquarters, an Arts Academy and now a Parliament adjunct building.
Near the entrance are four caryatids...statues of women in classic Greek garb and psoes which serve as columns.
Unfortunately there is no sign at the site indicating the artist, title or date.

Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:

"A caryatid ... is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatides literally means "maidens of Karyai", an ancient town of Peloponnese. Karyai had a famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: "As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants" (Kerenyi 1980 p 149)."

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: unknown Figure Type: Human Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: unknown Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: unknown Materials used: either marble or cement Location: Palais Epstein in Vienna

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