Otakar Švec: Motorcyclist

In the 1920s, Otakar Švec's sculptural work, which tended towards the flow of social civilism, was influenced by his interest in modern-day phenomena, which undoubtedly included motoring and sports. The plastic depiction of the dynamic movement of a motorcyclist on a racing machine, characterized by excellent sculptural mastery of the articulation of a figure with a machine, can be read as a symbol of enthusiasm for the speed of technical progress and expansion of technical civilization after the First World War.