Data sheet
Name: Bettino Levi Aedicule
Location: field 4, no. 61-65
Author: Eugenio Pellini (sculptor)
Construction date: 1922
Bettino Levi (1867-1935) was an early Zionist friend of Theodor Herzl’s. He committed himself to helping German Jews after Hitler’s rise to power. Bettino and his son Nino made a donation to the Humanitarian Society in memory of his wife Anna Reiser, who died in 1920 and was buried in the same aedicule. The donation was for the construction of a “working home for young derelicts”.
The aedicule was designed in 1922, after the death of Anna Reiser, by sculptor Eugenio Pellini (1864-1934) in Art Nouveau style, with a bronze door with a putto surrounded by two women in profile who are crying. On the sides are two flowerpots with bronze putti. Inside is placed the bust of his wife on a stele that recalls her activity for the Humanitarian Society.
