Old Man with Glasses - Tallinn, Estonia
N 59° 26.316 E 024° 44.750
35V E 372159 N 6591057
This statue of an old man looking through his glasses at those down below is located on the facade of the House at Pikk 23/25 in the Old Town of Tallinn, Estonia.
Waymark Code: WMPR4Q
Location: Estonia
Date Posted: 10/11/2015
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The old man is wearing a medium blue vest and black overcoat with a white ruffled-neck shirt peeking out at the top of his vest. He appears to be wearing a white powdered barrister's wig. He is holding the handle of a pair of spectacles in his right hand with the frames held up to his eyes. His left arm is bent and resting on a corner of the building's facade.
"In 1908, [Jacques] Rosenbaum completed a project for one Reinhold Reichmann on the corner of the two streets Pikk and Hobuspea in old town, Tallinn. In this, the first building by Rosenbaum that was actually built, his eclectic style and love of ornamentation is already apparent. The building is not easily classified aesthetically into either of the then-popular architectural styles. It shows influences of Art Nouveau, German neo-Renaissance and neo-Mannerism, all of which is expressed in the wealth of ornamentation. Among the details, a comical sculpture of an old man gazing across the street through his pince-nez has given rise to plenty of local stories. This and the other ornamentation was executed by the renowned Riga-based sculptor August Volz."
-- Wikipedia