The academic sculptor Arpád Račko (born on July 17, 1930 in Szolnok

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, Hungary

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) is a famous Slovak

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 sculptor.

He lives and creates in Košice

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Arpád Račko studied at the prestigious Academy of Creative Arts in Prague

Prague

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, in the art studio of professor

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 Jan Lauda. There has been a big influence of the sculptural work of Czech sculptors Josef Václav Myslbek

Josef Václav Myslbek

Josef Václav Myslbek was a Czech sculptor credited for founding of the modern Czech sculpting style.Josef grew up poor in a suburb of Prague. His family pushed him to become a shoemaker but he shirked the duty by getting a job with a succession of Czech sculptors...

 and Jan Štursa

Jan Štursa

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 on his work.

Arpád Račko has created dozens of sculptures, plastic arts, portraits and reliefs. The most popular of his works is the Marathoner statue at Námestie Maratónu mieru (The Peace Marathon Square), made in 1959, and the Statue of the Košice‘s Coat-of-arms at Hlavná ulica (Main Street), that he made in 2002.