Het Zinneke

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Het Zinneke
Artist	Tom Frantzen
Year	1998
Location	City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50°50′56″N 4°20′44″E / 50.848772°N 4.345585°E / 50.848772; 4.345585Coordinates: 50°50′56″N 4°20′44″E / 50.848772°N 4.345585°E / 50.848772; 4.345585

Het Zinneke (Brussels dialect for "the mutt"), sometimes called Zinneke Pis by analogy with Manneken Pis, is a bronze sculpture in Brussels (Belgium) erected in 1998.^[1] Created by Tom Frantzen, it represents a urinating dog, along the same lines as Manneken Pis (a boy) and its derivative Jeanneke Pis (a girl).^[2][3] It is an example of folk humour (zwanze) popular in Brussels.^[4]

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 trendiest districts of the capital.

In August 2015, Het Zinneke was struck by a car, and was restored by the sculptor.^[5]

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