Skip to content Skip to main navigation
MENU

Labour and Trade Union Memorials in the Czech Republic

Contributed by Jakub Raška & Adam Šumichrast

During the former communist regime that collapsed in 1989, public remembrance of the trade union and workers’ movement was strongly emphasized, which was reflected in the large number of monuments and statues created during that period. After 1989, however, many of these memorials were removed.

A Selection of Czech Trade Union Art, Monuments and Memorializations

Karel Purkyně’s painting “Portrait of the Blacksmith Jech” from 1860 is perhaps the first depiction in the history of Czech visual art of a manual worker engaged in intellectual activity.
The monument commemorating the Svárov strike of 1870 in Velké Hamry, erected in 1963.
Memorial to the victims of the mining disaster at the Doubrava mine (Karviná District), erected in 1952.
Memorial to mining traditions and mining disasters, 2021, Most.
Monument to the Heroes of the Great Most Strike, 1952