Monument to Jan Hus II

 
Address: Sukovy sady, Pražské Předměstí, Hradec Králové
Public transport: Gočárova (AUTOBUS 5, 15, 17; TROLEJBUS 2, 6)
GPS: 50.2114169, 15.8141356
Date: 1914
Artist: František Fabiánek
Object Typology
Work of Art
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In 1914, a replica of the monument to Jan Hus by local sculptor František Fabiánek was installed in the then Fialovy sady Park. An older version of the monument stands by the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren in the center of the town and is three years older. The monument in today’s Sukovy sady Park was unveiled on 11 July 1914. Unlike the monument in Nezvalova Street in the city center, the one in the gardens in Prague Suburbs has the inscription “Jan Hus” carved in the golden Art Nouveau script on its pylon. Fialovy sady Park were named after
the mayor of Prague Suburbs, František V. Fiala, who died in 1914 and had founded the park
as the chairman of the Prague Suburbs Ornamental Society. The as-sociation maintained the park, including the Hus monument, until 1940, when it ceased to exist. How-ever, in 1940 Fiala’s son Adam Fiala bequeathed CZK 2,000 to Hradec Králové for the purpose of main-taining
the park and the monument.
 
The academic sculptor František Fabiánek (1884–1967) was a figure painter and excelled in expressing the emotional expression of the face. He trained as a stonemason in Boskovice. After successfully passing the final exams at the stonemasonry school in Hořice, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Josef Václav Myslbek in 1905–1910.
In 1910 he stayed in the Paris studio of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Subsequently, he worked in Brno, where he lived and created four bronze reliefs of the Holy Evangelists for
the Church of St. Augustine, which were subsequently placed in the pulpit of that church. Fabiánek stayed in Hradec Králové from 1911 to 1914, during which time he worked on the bust of Dr. Klumpar and on figures and decorative details enlivening the façades of local private and public buildings. Among his sculptural works in architecture, for example, the reliefs of three telamons under the roof of the Credit Union from 1910–1911 (today’s seat of the Gallery of Modern Art Hradec Králové) by Osvald Polívka (1859-1931) have survived. Throughout his work, he focused mainly on portraits, sculptures and monuments.
 
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Monument Preservation

No protection has been registered.

Sources
  • Moravský zemský archiv v Brně, fond Sbírka matrik 1579–1945 E 67, kniha 177, inventární číslo 189
  • Státní okresní archiv Hradec Králové, fond Archiv města Hradec Králové 64 Umělecká výzdoba obce – pomníky, pamětní desky, památníky, inventární číslo 2403, karton 571
Literature

  • Václav Vilém Štech, Mistr Jan Hus ve výtvarném umění/umělecké památky, Praha 1916

  • Hlasy českého severovýchodu, Hradec Králové, 1940, s. 14

  • Prokop Toman, Nový slovník československých umělců, Praha 1947, s. 179

  • Julie Mariánková, Žili a pracovali v Brně, Brno 1977, s. 142

  • Zdeněk Lukeš; Rudolf Pošva, Neznámý Osvald Polívka. Pokus o rehabilitaci díla pražského architek-ta přelomu století, Staletá Praha, 1988, č. XVIII, s. 193–207

  • Zdeněk Chmel, Galerie českých osobností, Brno 1998, s. 29

  • Marie Benešová; František Toman; Jan Jakl, Salón republiky: Moderní architektura Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové 2000, s. 52

  • Ladislav Zikmund-Lender, Struktura města v zeleni: Moderní architektura v Hradci Králové, Hradec Králové 2017, s. 95–97