Otakar Švec [SEP] place of birth
Otakar Švec
Otakar Švec (23 November 1892 – 3 March 1955) was a Czech sculptor best known for his colossal granite Monument to Stalin in Prague, Czech Republic.
Career.
A pupil of Josef Václav Myslbek and Jan Štursa, Švec had produced the important 1924 Futurist sculpture "Sunbeam Motorcycle", now in the National Gallery in Prague, and at least three major public monuments to Tomáš Masaryk, Jan Hus, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The first two were destroyed by the Germans during World War II.
Otakar Švec, Czech sculptor
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