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The “Head of Siegfried” in the courtyard of the University of Vienna, detail of the glass casing

The “Head of Siegfried” was removed from its column, broken down into its components and encased in text.

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Andrea Stangl

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    The ‘Siegfried’s Head’ at the University of Vienna

    The ‘Siegfried’s Head’ was commissioned from the sculptor Josef Müllner by the German Student Fraternity in honour of the members of the university who fell in the First World War and was placed in the main entrance hall of the University of Vienna. The sculpture has been an object of controversy for decades, because Müllner and the fraternity who commissioned it are linked to an anti-Semitic, German nationalist and anti-liberal way of thinking.