Fette Henne, Modern fountain sculpture at Britzer Garten entrance, Berlin, Germany

Fette Henne is a cast-iron figure rising 4.5 metres from a round basin of reddish granite at the Buckower Damm entrance to Britzer Garten. Two identical four-armed forms, one inverted above the other, serve as the base for a body with female torso shapes; water pours from its head-like top and from the thickened ends of the base arms.

Rolf Szymanski made the fountain in 1984, the year before the Britzer Garten opened for the 1985 Federal Garden Exhibition. From 1974 to 1996 he directed the visual arts section of the Berlin Academy of Arts, not its presidency. The sculpture was placed at the garden's Buckower Damm entrance.

The name refers to Sedum, the fat hen plant: Szymanski engraved a brass plaque in the granite rim explaining that the figure recalls the flower's pistil with style and stigma. The same plaque bears the heading "Brunnen Fette Henne" and the Britzer Garten logo, and the artist also allowed the reading of a "beautiful gardener".

The fountain stands right at the garden entrance and is easy to reach, with water flowing from the upper structure through thickened arm ends into the granite basin. The location is accessible year-round and offers good conditions for photographing and examining its details.

The brass plaque set into the granite rim is headed "Brunnen Fette Henne" and carries the Britzer Garten logo. In two columns Szymanski explains that the figure recalls the pistil, style and stigma of Sedum, the fat hen plant; he also allows other readings, such as "Schöne Gärtnerin".