Wood Chopper - Athens, Greece
Posted by: neoc1
N 37° 58.200 E 023° 44.364
34S E 740632 N 4206027
The marble Wood Chopper, a.k.a. Wood Breaker, statue is located at across from the Old Olympic Stadium on Vassilis Konstantinos Avenue in Athens, Greece.
Waymark Code: WM11JM1
Location: Greece
Date Posted: 11/02/2019
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A life size, marble, nude statue of a man with his left thigh resting on a tree stump and bending over to break a tree limb with his hands while holding the limb down with his right foot. The sculpture rests on a 6' high marble base which is inscribed:
MUNICIPALITY OF ATHENS
PREFECT
SPYROS C. MERCOURI
ERECTED
YEAR 1908
The sculpture was created by Dimitrios Filipotis in 1908 and was originally from located, from 1908 to 1958, at a small square of Amalias Avenue. There is was vandalized before it was restored and moved to its present location.