A set of six reliefs adorns the façade of an apartment building on the corner of Krížna and Karadžičova streets. The reliefs, three per floor, extend the width of the window sills on the fifth and sixth floors and are sited on the second to fourth window axes from the north.   

Their motifs are the professions of workers and farmers, with ideological reference to their centrality within the new state. The use of relief decorations with the theme of work as part of the artistic design of buildings constructed in the 1950s and 1960s was a strong feature of socialist realism. For example, there are twenty reliefs on the façade of the Pavilion of Theoretical Institutes of the Slovak University of Technology (today FAD STU) on Freedom Square in Bratislava. Both groups of works share common formal and compositional elements.   

The artistic design and depiction of themes and figures reflect the period's demand for realism, comprehensibility, and clarity, as the ideological message of these scenes was the celebration of working people. 

The relief below the window sill of the sixth floor in the second window axis from the north depicts the motif of grain cultivation or harvest and traditional livestock farming. The figurative scene repeats the pattern of the other reliefs.   

Three standing figures depicted in three-quarter length are evenly distributed across the frame. On the left, a female figure is shown from the front with her head in profile turned towards the centre of the scene. Her right hand lowers a sickle to her side, while her left hand raises a sheaf of corn to shoulder height. Opposite her, to the right of the relief, a man is depicted from the front with his head in profile turned towards the centre. Dressed in traditional shepherd's clothing, he carries a lamb on his shoulders. At the centre of the scene, a man stands with his head turned towards the woman. He holds a sheaf of grain in his right hand and a rope for tying it in his left hand.  

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Research status as of 15. 11. 2023.