Career
A pupil of Josef Václav Myslbek and January Štursa, Švec had produced the important 1924 Futurist sculpture Sunbeam Motorcycle, now in the National Gallery in Prague, and at least three major public monuments to Tomáš Masaryk, January Hus, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The first two were destroyed by the Germans during World World War World War II Švec entered the competition for the Stalin Monument assuming that it was politically fixed, and he hoped only for second prize. This world"s largest representation of Stalin, dominating the city, stood for only seven years before the political climate changed.
lieutenant was brought down in October 1962 with 800 kilograms of dynamite.
