The City of Atlanta’s Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs Conservation and Maintenance Team treated German Sundial by Charles Mitchell. The German Sundial commemorates 300 years of German Immigration to the Colonies of the New World. There are five similar works in the southeast. There are located in Memphis, Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, Huntsville, Tennessee, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Can you find them?
The Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs Conservation and Maintenance Team, Conservation Technicians, Adrian Barzaga and Addison Adams, and Conservation and Maintenance Manager, Shannon Douglas Kimbro, treated the artwork on March 28, 2019. They cleaned the sculpture; removed oxidation from the bronze elements, patched voids in the limestone base, treated the stone with biocide, and finally waxed and buffed the bronze surfaces.