Józef Szanajca monument in Warsaw

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The bust of Józef Szanajca (Polish: popiersie Józefa Szanajcy) is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, placed at the corner of Sznajcy and Jagiellońska Street, within the neighbourhood of New Praga, of the district of Praga-North. It 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.

History: 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. Lachert worked on it between 1943 and 1944, in his house on Katowicka Street in the neighbourhood of Saska Kępa. The original gypsum model remains in the collection of the Association of Polish Architects in the Zamoyski Palace in Warsaw. The monument was unveiled on 24 September 1979. The original bust, cast in bronze by Bracia Łopieńscy workshop, was stolen and replaced with an iron one instead.