Der Hase von Jürgen Goertz

A massive bronze rabbit crouches on the Tiergärtnertorplatz, its heavy, unsettling form bursting out from a smashed wooden crate. Created by artist Jürgen Goertz in nineteen eighty-four, the sculpture serves as a satirical homage to Albrecht Dürer’s famous fifteen oh two watercolor, A Young Hare. While Dürer’s original painting is celebrated for its precise, delicate realism, this interpretation presents a gargantuan, goggle-eyed creature that stands in stark contrast to the quiet study of nature.