Sitzender Keiler, Bronze sculpture near Deutsches Jagd und Fischereimuseum, Munich, Germany
The Sitzender Keiler is a bronze sculpture of a seated wild boar rendered with careful anatomical detail and textured surface. It stands directly in front of the German Hunting and Fishing Museum on Neuhauser Street, where it forms a key part of the outdoor artistic setting.
Martin Mayer created the original version in 1960 for the Borstei residential complex, where it remains today. A second bronze casting was placed in front of the hunting museum in 1976 to bring the work to a wider audience.
The seated boar echoes the Porcellino fountain in Florence, itself based on a marble boar in the Uffizi. At the Munich site, the boar shares its spot with a bronze catfish (Waller), pairing a land animal with a river fish outside the hunting museum.
The sculpture stands on Neuhauser Straße, a pedestrian stretch of Munich's old town, so it can be approached from all sides on foot. The site is open-air and freely visible at any hour; the nearby U-Bahn and S-Bahn stations at Karlsplatz (Stachus) and Marienplatz put it on a short walk between the two.
The seated boar follows two models: Pietro Tacca's bronze Porcellino in Florence and a marble boar in the Uffizi. The Munich casting stands beside a bronze catfish, pairing a land animal with a river fish outside the hunting museum.
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