Het Zinneke | |
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Artist | Tom Frantzen |
Year | 1999 |
Type | Bronze |
Location | City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
50°50′56″N 4°20′44″E / 50.848772°N 4.345585°E |
Het Zinneke (Brusselian dialect for "the mutt"), sometimes called Zinneke Pis by analogy with Manneken Pis, is a bronze sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, erected in 1999.[1][2] Created by Tom Frantzen, it represents a dog urinating against a bollard, along the same lines as Manneken Pis (a boy) and its derivative Jeanneke Pis (a girl).[3][4] It is an example of folk humour (zwanze) popular in Brussels.[1][5]
Het Zinneke is located at the junction of the Rue des Chartreux/Kartuizersstraat and the Rue du Vieux-Marché-aux-Grains/Oude Graanmarkt in the City of Brussels, not far from the Halles Saint-Géry/Sint-Gorikshallen, a former covered market, and one of the capital's trendiest districts.[6]