# Brēmenes muzikanti

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Brēmenes muzikanti is a bronze sculpture in Riga, Latvia, showing four fairy-tale animals stacked on one another. A donkey supports a dog, a cat and a rooster. Two large metal bands frame the animals, whose faces and poses look through a gap between them.

Christa Baumgärtel created the sculpture in 1990 as Bremen’s gift to Riga, marking the partnership between the cities. Gerhard Marcks’s 1953 sculpture in front of Bremen Town Hall provided the original idea. The gap between the bands represents the opening of the Iron Curtain, while the animals express surprise and new freedom. A stone base raises the work to about three metres and carries Latvian and German inscriptions naming Baumgärtel and Bremen.

Rubbing the animals’ noses is said to bring luck, with greater height promising more. Years of this ritual have left the noses shiny and golden against the bronze.

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