Memorial Crazy Horse Memorial

by Adil | 8:36 PM in , , , , |

 In 1939, representatives of the Sioux approached sculptor Korczak Zyulkovski (Korczak Ziółkowski) with a request to perpetuate them in the Black Hills of the legendary leader of the Crazy Horse, known. As planned by the master, a monument to Crazy Horse Memorial was to be one of the greatest sculptures in the world, carved into the rock: the size of sculpture, in its final form, would amount to 195 meters in width and 172 meters in height. Korczak monument Zyulkovski worked until his death, but did not finish the monument. In 1998, followers of the master was able to complete part of the sculpture - the face of the leader.










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