In 1878 Casper Clemens von Zumbusch completed his design for a Beethoven memorial in Vienna, which was unveiled two years later. The focus of the memorial is Beethoven, seated in an attitude reminiscent of Michelangelo's statue of Moses. Zumbusch sculpted a detailed allegorical ensemble around the pedestal, with which he desired to show Beethoven's claim to historical greatness. Cherubs represent Beethoven's symphonies, the chained Prometheus and Nike, the goddess of victory, complement the ensemble and provide a link with the iconographic traditions of representations of rulers since the Baroque.(S.B.)
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