The Advocate Relief

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The Advocate Relief

Having a right and getting justice are two different things.

The relief of the warriors was created in 1930 by the sculptor Otto Mantel . The original is located in the St. Anne's Museum.

It depicts two dogs fighting over a bone. To their right and left, they are flanked by a jester, gleefully looking on, and a lawyer wearing tinted glasses. This symbolizes the lawyer's role in settling disputes "without regard to the person." " So the dog with the bone, so the devil with the lawyer ."

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Barbara Schwartz

Do you ever get that feeling? You walk past an inscription, a sculpture, or a plaque and you just have to stop and find out what it's all about? That's how it is for me. ALWAYS! "One only sees what one already knows and understands." I couldn't agree more with Goethe on that point. That's precisely why I never want to stop discovering the seemingly insignificant, recognizing connections, learning new things, and getting to the bottom of people and their stories. Okay, and writing overly long sentences... And learning new languages, of course...