Odmev (Echo) - Cankarjeva cesta - Ljubljana - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

Odmev (Echo), a bronze sculpture by artist Karel Putrih on a square outside the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana.

A figure of a woman, it looks as if she is shouting and listening to the echos.

"Karel Putrih Slovenian sculptor , * 14th november 1910 , Ljubljana , † 6th september 1959 , Ljubljana .

He became famous already in the group Independent before the Second World War. Putrih most worked in stone , calcined clay , bronze and wax . He is often modeled by women acts , figurative art and portraits .

From 1950 until his death was Putrih also a professor at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts .

In 1959, together with Zdenko Kalinom received the Preseren Prize "for plastics in the building of the People's Assembly LRS." Its plastics are Lintel, meant for the balcony railing. Illustrate various workers and craftsmen.

Works

Female act Brdo pri Kranju in the park
torso
Monument hostages, the hostages Street, Ljubljana
Echo from the Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
Memorial to the Victims of Fascism in st. Urh in Ljubljana
Portal of the former People's Assembly (today Parliament), Ljubljana
Draft for the monument to the unknown political prisoner "

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Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Odmev (Echo) Figure Type: Human Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Karel Putrih Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1954 Materials used: Bronze Location: Outside Museum of Modern Art

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