Artist:
Karel Nepraš
Title:
Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist
Year:
2005
Adress:
Prokopova, Žižkov
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aroslav Hašek is said to never have ridden a horse. As a Deputy Commissar of the Red Army in Bugulma, he is said to have used a horse-drawn buggy as the means of transporting himself around his jurisdiction. Before World War One and after he returned from Russia Hašek spent a lot of time at tables: writing, drinking, observing, talking to others. Perhaps that is why the first equestrian statue of him could be mistaken for a memorial to a tavern cousin of the quintessential desk jockey ... The horse resembles a chess piece more than a living stallion, and the"buffet"-style, i.e. Prague bistro-style table top at the horse's sides ... one could easily rest his stein full of Czech liquid bread, a.k.a. the best beer in the world on it, while chatting with friends.
After Karel Nepraš passed away, his daughter Karolína Neprašová finished the work on the bust. Together with architect Milan Kupka she managed to carry out the sculptor's intent and have the memorial erected in the Prokop's Square in the Žižkov neighborhood.
www.wikipedia.org:
Equestrian statue of Jaroslav Hašek by Karel Nepraš. The statue is situated in Žižkov - part of Prague where Jaroslav Hašek lived during the period of writing his novel The Good Soldier Švejk.
Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech humorist and satirist best known for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I, which has been translated into sixty languages. He also wrote some 1,500 short stories. He was a journalist, bohemian, and practical joker. His short life had many odd parallels with another Prague contemporary, the Jewish writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924).
aroslav Hašek is said to never have ridden a horse. As a Deputy Commissar of the Red Army in Bugulma, he is said to have used a horse-drawn buggy as the means of transporting himself around his jurisdiction. Before World War One and after he returned from Russia Hašek spent a lot of time at tables: writing, drinking, observing, talking to others. Perhaps that is why the first equestrian statue of him could be mistaken for a memorial to a tavern cousin of the quintessential desk jockey ... The horse resembles a chess piece more than a living stallion, and the"buffet"-style, i.e. Prague bistro-style table top at the horse's sides ... one could easily rest his stein full of Czech liquid bread, a.k.a. the best beer in the world on it, while chatting with friends.
After Karel Nepraš passed away, his daughter Karolína Neprašová finished the work on the bust. Together with architect Milan Kupka she managed to carry out the sculptor's intent and have the memorial erected in the Prokop's Square in the Žižkov neighborhood.
www.wikipedia.org:
Equestrian statue of Jaroslav Hašek by Karel Nepraš. The statue is situated in Žižkov - part of Prague where Jaroslav Hašek lived during the period of writing his novel The Good Soldier Švejk.
Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech humorist and satirist best known for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I, which has been translated into sixty languages. He also wrote some 1,500 short stories. He was a journalist, bohemian, and practical joker. His short life had many odd parallels with another Prague contemporary, the Jewish writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924).