Equestrian statue of Josef Pilsudski
The Józef Piłsudski Monument (Polish: Pomnik Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego ) is located on the Lithuanian Square in Lublin , Poland . The monument was erected in honor of Józef Piłsudskis († 1935) a Polish military man, politician and later Marshal of the Second Polish Republic .
The memorial was erected in 2002 in the immediate vicinity of the tomb of the unknown soldier . The equestrian statue was created based on a design from 1937 by Prof. Jan Raszka, a friend of Józef Piłsudski. The model for casting was created on a 1: 1 scale by the sculptors Krzysztof Skóry and Adam Kity. The bronze casting was carried out by Tomasz Zwoliński from Iłża . The equestrian statue was erected on the initiative of Zbigniew Wojciechowski and the Society of Piłsudski Tradition in Lublin.
literature
- Marta Denys, Dariusz Kopciowski, Agnieszka Martinka, Jacek Studziński, Jadwiga Teodorowicz-Czerepińska, Stanisław Turski: Lublin - The Guidebook . Lublin 2012, ISBN 978-83-7548-119-8 , pp. 194 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 53.8 ″ N , 22 ° 33 ′ 32.3 ″ E