Gedenktafel Carl Djerassi - Campus Uni Wien

On March 15, 2012, the kinetic sculpture "Four Lines Oblique II" by the artist George Rickey was inaugurated on the campus of the University of Vienna in the district of Alsergrund. The sculpture was a gift from the chemist Carl Djerassi to the American-Austrian Foundation as a gesture of reconciliation. Djerassi had to flee to the United States in 1938 due to the antisemitic persecution policies of the National Socialists. Originally, the sculpture was intended to be installed on the Bastei next to the Albertina. However, the wind conditions made a permanent installation there impossible. In August 2010, "Four Lines Oblique II" was installed in front of the City Garden Office in the district of Landstraße, but was removed again in 2011 and finally installed on the campus.