Nazanin Amiri Instagram – Photo: Martin Stollenwerk Zurich Switzerland 🇨🇭
The female nude “The Striding One” measures almost 2.5 meters high. The bronze figure is captured in motion, with her left arm raised – as if she is protecting her eyes from the blinding sun – and looking into the distance. There is a cloth over her right arm that falls along her body to her feet.
In 1942, the city of Zurich announced a competition for free sculptures on the old Tonhalleplatz. The winning project was the individual figure “Striding Woman” by the Zurich artist Otto Charles Bänninger (1897–1973). Giuditta Tommasi was the artist’s model for “The Striding One,” which was created between 1944 and 1946. She was a colorful figure at the time, as she was one of the first openly gay women in Zurich in the 1950s. In 1946 the work of art was placed in the eastern corner of the old Tonhalleplatz. The existing low end wall was interrupted specifically for this purpose and replaced with a staircase. The base of the figure was incorporated into it.
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