Jan Štursa

Later, he studied at the Academy of Arts (AVU) in Prague under professor Josef Myslbek, a known sculptor.

As a result of very rigorous criticism from Myslbek, Štursa destroyed most of his early works.

[2] A monumental couple of figures decorates the pylons of Hlávka Bridge in Prague.

The original group in Austrian uniforms was remade in the 1920s into a memorial of victims of World War I and placed in the village Předměřice nad Jizerou, with copies in Místek and in Nové Město na Moravě.

Štursa suffered from the effects of syphilis and on 2 May 1925, faced with increasing pain, he killed himself in his atelier in Prague at age 44.