Franta Belsky

Franta Belsky
Photo of sculptor Franta Belsky with his bust of Queen Elizabeth II (Don Honeyman, 1981)
Born
František Bělský

(1921-04-06)6 April 1921
Died5 July 2000(2000-07-05) (aged 79)
Known forSculpture
MovementModern sculpture, Modernism
Awards

František Bělský (as artist used the name Franta Belsky; in Czech Franta Bělský, 6 April 1921 – 5 July 2000) was a Czech-British sculptor.

He was known for large-scale abstract works of public art as well as more iconographic statues and busts of noted 20th-century figures such as Winston Churchill and members of the British Royal Family.