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Náměstí Jana Palacha, Staré Město
(Faculty of Arts)

Jan Palach

Všetaty 1948 - Praha 1969
Czech student. His self-immolation in 1969 was a political protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 which brought an end to the Prague Spring
(Wikipedia)

Olbram Zoubek
1990

Description

Commemorative plaque featuring a replica of Jan Palach’s death mask and the Czech lion; on the building of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. Zoubek secretly made a plaster mask in hospital after Palach died on 19 January 1969.

Praha - Jan Palach

Inscription(s)

JAN PALACH
16.1.1969

Artist

Olbram Zoubek (Praag 1926 - Praha 2017), Czech sculptor of Praha and Litomyšl (Wikipedia – RKDArtists).

Sources & Information

Pamětní desky v Praze, Katalog pražských pamětních desek.

Location (N 50°5'21" - E 14°24'57") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: czpr090; Photograph: 7 July 2026
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