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 fourth window axis from the north depicts the motif of growing agricultural crops and raising farm animals. 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 right, a woman shown from the front with her head turned in profile towards the centre of the scene is holding a goose. Behind her is a building with a flat roof. On the left, a man is depicted from the front with his head turned in profile towards the centre. He holds a beetroot lowered to his side in his right hand, while his left hand, arm bent, raises a spade. At the centre, a man shown from behind with his head in left profile holds a bunch of corn with his left hand and supports a pole hung with drying corn in his right hand.

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Research status as of 15. 11. 2023.