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RE: Prague/Czech Republic Friday Photo Challenge - share your photos from your visit to Czech Republic!
The monument to Witezslaw Glackow was installed in Prague in 1881 and is located in the northern part of Charles Square, in front of the courthouse. The author of the monument was the famous Czech sculptor Bohuslav Schnirch.
The sculptor Bohuslav Shnirh placed a bronze bust of the poet on a semicircular base forming a memorial bench, on the sides of which are the figures of two sphinxes.
The monument was created in honor of the famous founder of Czech poetry, prose writer, playwright and publicist Witezslav Galek. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the school of poetry, in addition to Jan Neruda and Karolina Svetla.
The poet to whom the memorial was built was named Vítězslav Hálek in Czech. If you are an Eastern Slav, I understand the variant Hálek - Galek. But as you came to Glackow's name, I don't get it.
I agree with others. (Hálek was famous poet at the end of the 19th century. Today he is completely forgotten and no one reads him.)
Thanks for the correction. This is my bad english.))