Columbo Statue
Columbo Statue is located in Budapest
Columbo Statue
Columbo Statue
Location in Budapest
ArtistGéza Dezső Fekete
Year2014
MediumBronze
SubjectLieutenant Columbo (fictional character)
LocationBudapest
Coordinates47°30′46″N 19°02′56″E / 47.51265°N 19.04893°E / 47.51265; 19.04893

The Columbo statue is a life-sized bronze work on Falk Miksa Street in Budapest depicting Peter Falk in the role of the fictional police detective Columbo. At the Columbo statue's feet is a statue of Columbo's dog, Dog.[1][2] The statues, by the sculptor Géza Dezső Fekete, were put up in 2014 as part of a state-sponsored urban renewal project.[3]

Though Peter Falk and the street's namesake, 19th century Hungarian politician Miksa Falk, were both Jewish, and the actor Peter Falk had ancestors from Hungary, there is no known family relationship between them. The actor's Hungarian connection was not through the Falk family on his father's side, but through his maternal grandfather.[4]

See also

  • Zbigniew Lengren, whose comic strip characters, Filutek (professor, implied) and Filuś (dog), have a statue in Toruń

References

  1. ↑ "Columbo Statue". Atlas Obscura.
  2. ↑ "One More Thing ... About Hungary's Columbo Statue". May 13, 2015 – via Slate.
  3. ↑ "Fidesz clue in The Case of the Columbo Sculptor | The Budapest Times". budapesttimes-archiv.bzt.hu. Retrieved Aug 3, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Wait, why is there a Columbo statue in Budapest?". July 14, 2018.


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