Lion on the Czech National Bank building, Prague, Czech Republic - Lion Statues on Waymarking.com

The metal statue perched on the attic gable of the bank at Na príkope 28 was created in 1898 for the original Živnostenská banka building. In 1938, it was transferred to the new, present-day bank building. The statue is a symbol of progress and liberalisation of trade. It comprises a figure of a striding genius in a fluttering robe (in Roman mythology, a genius was a tutelary deity or guardian spirit sometimes depicted as a winged or haloed being) holding aloft a flaming torch. At his side is a lion holding a ball under its front right paw. The ball is marked with the date of the statue.
The statue (measuring 4.7 m x 2.9 m x 4.5 m and weighing around 2 tonnes) is made from beaten copper sheet 0.8-2.0 mm thick. Apart from the statue of King George in Podebrady, it is the only major beaten-metal statue in the Czech Republic. A similar technique was employed for the Statue of Liberty in the USA, for example. The skeletons of both the genius and the lion are firmly held together with bolted joints. The only free part is the torch, weighing 12 kg. The statue was designed by Antonín Popp and built by the Hofman firm.

Physical Address: Czech National Bank Na Příkopě 28 Prague 1, Czech Republic 115 03 Web Site: Not listed

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