Columbo statue

Columbo statue
Columbo statue Location in Budapest
Artist	Géza Dezső Fekete
Year	2014
Medium	Bronze
Subject	Lieutenant Columbo (fictional character)
Location	Budapest
Coordinates	47°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 heritage did not derive from the Falk family on his father's side, but through his maternal grandfather.^[4]

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References

1. "Columbo Statue". Atlas Obscura. Archived from the original on 2020-07-03. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
2. "One More Thing ... About Hungary's Columbo Statue". May 13, 2015. Archived from the original on October 22, 2017. Retrieved August 3, 2020 – via Slate.
3. "Fidesz clue in The Case of the Columbo Sculptor | The Budapest Times". budapesttimes-archiv.bzt.hu. Archived from the original on June 3, 2023. Retrieved Aug 3, 2020.
4. "Wait, why is there a Columbo statue in Budapest?". July 14, 2018.