Sculpture of St. Wenceslas

The sculpture of St. Wenceslas was carved by the sculptor Josef Kamil Böhm at the request of the Klár Institute for the Blind; the idea for the sculpture came from Pavel Alois Klár, the son of the institute’s founder, on the 25th anniversary of its founding. The design for the statue was created by painter Josef Führich, and the finished work was installed on Charles Bridge in 1859, in a spot that had previously remained empty.