2-720-956 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bronze statues in the Hofkirche, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, c1935. Four of the 28 life-size bronze figures that stand guard over the tomb of Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519), who is actually buried elsewhere, at Wiener Neustadt. The figures, known as the Schwarzmander or 'Black Men', despite including several women, were not completed until several years after the emperor's death. From "Österreich - Land Und Volk", (Austria, Land and People). [R. Lechner (Wilhelm Müller), Vienna, c1935]