Józef Szanajca monument in Warsaw

The bust of Józef Szanajca (Polish pronunciation: [ju.zf anaj.tsa]; Polish: popiersie Józefa Szanajcy) is a monument in the city of Warsaw, Poland, placed at the corner of Sznajcy and Jagiellońska Street. It is located within the neighbourhood of New Praga, in the Praga-North district. The monument is dedicated to Józef Szanajca, a 19th- and 20th-century architect, and one of the most influential artists of the modernist movement in Poland. The original sculpture was designed by Bohdan Lachert in 1944, while the monument was unveiled on 24 September 1979.

The bust sculpture of Józef Sznajca was originally commissioned by his friend Bohdan Lachert, from sculptor Zofia Trzcińska-Kamińska, in 1939. However, after Lachert deemed the received work unsatisfactory, he decided to made it himself. He worked on it between 1943 and 1944, in his house on Katowicka Street in the neighbourhood of Saska Kępa in Warsaw. Its original gypsum model remains in the collection of the Association of Polish Architects in the Konstanty Zamoyski Palace in Warsaw. The monument was unveiled on 24 September 1979. The original bust, cast in bronze in the Łopieński Brothers workshop, was stolen and replaced with an iron one instead.

The monument consists of a small iron bust of Józef Szanajca, installed on the side of a tall granite plinth. It features a plaque, with the following Polish inscription:

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