Ülo Õun

A granite base for the sculpture was made, but an ordinance was brought to light that only artwork and monuments related to the University of Tartu could be installed on Toomemägi.

[10] The sculpture was later unveiled for permanent display on Küüni Street on Child Protection Day, 1 June 2004, in Tartu central park, facing Town Hall Square.

[11] In 1978, Õun created portrait sculptures of Estonian cultural figures: painter Tiit Pääsuke, artist Kaljo Põllu, and actor and theater pedagogue Voldemar Panso, for which he won the Kristjan Raud Art Award the following year.

[12] Other portrait sculptures by Õun include those of composers Gustav Ernesaks and Veljo Tormis, author Eduard Vilde, actor and poet Juhan Viiding, actress Elle Kull, zoologist Harald Haberman, artists Jüri Palm and Villu Jõgeva, and actors and theater pedagogues Kaarel Ird, Theodor Altermann, Paul Pinna, and Mikk Mikiver.

[14] Following the public unveiling of the sculpture on 8 May 1981, there was an immediate backlash from the mostly Russian-speaking religious locals, who found the nudity and the posed figure’s similarity to the crucifixion of Christ objectionable.

[14] Local complaints eventually reached high ranking Communist Party officials in Moscow and Soviet authorities had the sculpture's nudity covered by a pair of specially cast bronze "briefs".

The central figure is a bronze sculpture of a nude woman holding a broken rose in her outstretched hands standing on a massive raised grey marble platform, which is ensconced by a geometric structure of four concrete pillars which connect above into a pyramid-like shape, symbolizing a chapel.

[2] In 1986, he was profiled in the Aime Kala directed documentary short Pildi sisse minek: Ülo Õun for Eesti Rahvusringhääling.