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Szalai, Laszlo,
History -- Hungary
Figure group -- Male
Equestrian
Ethnic -- Hungarian
Allegory -- Civic
Allegory -- Civic
Animal -- Bird
Object -- Musical Instrument
Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Norwalk
Relief
Sculpture
1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighters' Monument, (
sculpture
).
Artist:
Szalai, Laszlo, sculptor.
Title:
1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighters' Monument, (
sculpture
).
Other Titles:
Hungarian Freedom Fighters' Monument, (
sculpture
).
Dates:
ca. 1966. Rededicated Oct. 24, 1986.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture
: bronze relief on grey granite marker; Base: concrete.
Dimensions:
Sculpture
: approx. 7 ft. x 8 ft. x 8 in.; Base: approx. 4 x 8 x 2 ft.
Inscription:
(On upper right corner of marker:) HUNGARY 1956 (On plaque on base:) IN MEMORY OF/THE 1956 FREEDOMFIGHTERS (sic)/ERECTED BY/THE HUNGARIAN COMMITTEE/OF
NORWALK
IN 1966/REDEDICATED ON OCTOBER 24, 1986 unsigned
Description:
Bas-relief on an upright rectangular marker features a nude horseman astride a bucking horse galloping over a prone clothed male figure. The horseman holds a dagger in his upraised proper right hand. The figure under the horse's hooves has fallen onto a lyre below his proper right arm. A dove flutters skyward above his heart.
Subject:
History
--
Hungary
--
Hungarian Uprising
Figure group
--
Male
Equestrian
Ethnic
--
Hungarian
Allegory
--
Civic
--
Liberty
Allegory
--
Civic
--
Rebellion
Animal
--
Bird
--
Dove
Object
--
Musical Instrument
--
Lyre
Object Type:
Outdoor
Sculpture
--
Connecticut
--
Norwalk
Relief
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Hungarian Reform Church, 19 Lexington Avenue,
Norwalk
,
Connecticut
Located Freese Park, Corner of Burnell Boulevard & Main Street,
Norwalk
,
Connecticut
Remarks:
Commissioned by the Hungarian Committee of
Norwalk
to commemorate the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. The cost was $15,000. After being vandalized the monument was restored in 1986 and rededicated. The artist was one of 10,000 Hungarian refugees who fled to the United States following the Uprising. The SOS! survey gives the
sculpture
's location as Freese Park. An attached article dated Oct. 27, 1986 states that the piece was sited in Freese Park until it was restored and "moved to its new prominent location in the city's uptown district," at Main and Wall Streets.
References:
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Outdoor
Sculpture
,
Connecticut
survey, 1994.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and
Sculpture
database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and
Sculpture
, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS CT000349
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