František Fabiánek

Monument to the victims of the First World War in Brno-Ivanovice

František Fabiánek (born October 14, 1884 in Boskovice , † December 3, 1967 in Brno ) was a Czechoslovak academic sculptor . He created numerous sculptures and portraits for monuments and architectural purposes, which were erected on the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic.

Life

František Fabiánek attended the stonemason and sculpture school in Horice from 1901 to 1905 . He later studied from 1905 to 1910 with Josef Václav Myslbek at the Art Academy in Prague . In 1910 he stayed privately in Paris .

Between 1911 and 1914 Fabiánek lived in Hradec Králové and was involved in the design of several buildings in this town that were built during this time. Several of his works are available to the public here.

After the First World War, Fabiánek lived and worked primarily in the Brno region.

The statue of St. Wenceslaus (Sv. Václav) he created on the Kotouč (532 m) near Štramberk was destroyed, including its Czech inscriptions, after the fascist occupation in 1939. The remains of the monument were removed in 1948.

Monument to Pavel Křížkovský in Brno

Selected Works

• three caryatid figures on the top floor of the Gallery of Modern Arts in Hradec Králové (1911–1912)
• Monument to Master Jan Hus in Hradec Králové / Sukovy sady (unveiled August 11, 1914)
• Monument to Emperor Franz Josef in Brno (erected in 1916)
• Jan Hus monument in Brezová pod Bradlom (erected in 1922)
• Memorial to the victims of World War I 1914–1918 (erected October 28, 1923) in Brno-Ivanovice
• Monument to Pavel Křížkovský in Brno (erected in 1926)
• Statue of Sv. Václav on the Kotouč hill near Štramberk (erected in 1932), a replica by the sculptor Jan Kozel since 1994
• Sculptures on the building of the New Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové
• Světlonoška in Boskovice (on Hybešova street)

literature

• Alois Jilemnický: Kámen jako událost . Hradec Králové (Panorama) 1984

Web links

• biographical entry in the Encyklopedie Brna (Czech text)
• Article with information about his work in Hradec Králové (Czech text)
• Illustration of the war horse memorial in Brno-Ivanovice (Czech text)