Lange Wapper Statue
Bronze folklore giant by sculptor Albert Poels, guarding the entrance of a medieval riverside castle.
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This guide to the Lange Wapper statue outside Het Steen in Antwerp weighs a giant of folklore against the bronze figure that sculptor Albert Poels set at the castle gate in the early nineteen sixties. It turns on the clay-to-plaster-to-metal way Poels made his work, the motto he held his materials to, and a folk singer who had his own opinion of the result. Best heard walking slowly around the statue.
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