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 fifth floor in the third window axis from the north depicts the motif of mining, with typical elements of modern mining – lamp and pneumatic hammer.  

Three standing miners depicted in three-quarter length are evenly distributed across the scene. The figure on the right, shown shirtless from behind with head in left profile, raises a large jackhammer, his head protected by a cap that extends to his neck. The miner in the centre, also depicted from behind with head in left profile, is wearing a work coat. He holds a miner's lamp in his right hand and raises his left hand to face level in a gesture of victory. The miner on the left, his head in right profile, is wearing a miner's uniform. His right hand holds a container with a lamp suspended above it, while his left hand, arm slightly bent, holds an unidentified object against his waist. 

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Research status as of 15. 11. 2023.