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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:  Save 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   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CT000349 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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