Statue of Janko Kráľ explained

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Statue of Janko Kráľ is located in the middle of Sad Janka Kráľa (literally Janko Kráľ Park/Garden) in the Petržalka borough in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Janko Kráľ was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the Ľudovít Štúr generation and a national revivalist. It is not exactly known how he looked, but several popular supposed pictures of him exist.[1] One of them was used as a model for this statue from academic sculptor František Gibala.,[2] in 1964.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.osobnosti.sk/index.php?os=zivotopis&ID=58775 Janko Kráľ
  2. http://www.petrzalka.sk/buxus/generate_page.php?page_id=934 Petržalka — Sad Janka Kráľa
  3. Web site: Picasa Web Albums - Fedor Macasek . 2012-04-07 . dead . https://archive.today/20121217133642/https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/tH2k8RiGuRi_0dTfXwEVjdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0 . 2012-12-17 .