Ivan Kavčič - Nande

In memory of the national hero Ivan Kavčič - Nandeta (1913–1943), a monument was unveiled on June 7, 1959, on the occasion of the anniversary of the 1936 workers' strike, in front of the Ljubljana Building and Construction School Center, which was also opened on the same day. Today, it stands in the garden of the Bežigrad Children's Home.

The monument has an unusual form of a bronze sculpture of a naked boy, who takes water from the source and carries it to his mouth; it is almost more of a park decorative sculpture than a monument to a national hero. A stone block with an engraved commemorative inscription was placed next to the statue.

The sculptor of the statue is the academic sculptor Karel Putrih, who created it in the last year of his life. It was presented at the posthumous exhibition of 1960 under the title Ob izviru.

Sources:

"Near the source of our revolutionaries, young generations are nourished," Delavska enotnost, June 13, 1959, p. 1 (image source 2) (link).

Špelca Čopič, Damjan Prelovšek, and Sonja Žitko, Ljubljansko kiparstvo na prostem, Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, 1991, p. 142.

Vodnik po partizanskih poteh, Ljubljana: Borec, 1978, p. 16 (erroneous reference stating that it was Kavčič's companion statue, unveiled in 1957).

Janez Kaučič/Ivan Kavčič. sistory