John Lennon MemorialsJohn Lennon busts
4 verified busts in 4 countries, dated between 2010 and 2015.
In numbers
- Memorials
- 4 in 4 countries, 4 cities
- Earliest dated
- John Lennon bust, Sopron music school, 2 October 2010
- Most recent
- John Lennon Monument, Mindaugo Street, 21 May 2015
- Undated
- 1 with no confirmed date
- Access
- 3 free in public space
- Most isolated
- John Lennon Monument, Mindaugo Street, 526 km from the nearest other memorial in the database
Computed from the published records on 14 October 2026. Distances are straight-line.
Lennon busts belong to Central and Eastern Europe, and each was made by a sculptor from its own country. They date from a short span, 2010 to 2015, decades after the statue and garden memorials of the West.
Sopron came first. László Szlávics Jr. hammered the head from copper sheet, set it on a limestone column and donated it to the Horváth József music school, where it was unveiled on 2 October 2010. In Zagreb, the bust is by Boris Leiner, a former drummer of the band Azra, and stands in the Rock'n'Roll Theme Park courtyard, unveiled on 15 November 2013.
The Vilnius bust by Jonas Gencevičius is the least conventional: a bronze head with a flower over one eye, based on a Robert Whitaker photograph, unveiled on 21 May 2015. Kielce placed Tomasz Łukaszczyk's bronze in its Aleja Sław, an alley of 20th-century cultural figures, after a 2010 competition.
All 4 busts
John Lennon bust, Rock'n'Roll Theme Park, Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia, 2013
John Lennon bust, Sopron music school
Sopron, Hungary, 2010
John Lennon Monument, Mindaugo Street
Vilnius, Lithuania, 2015
John Lennon bust, Aleja Sław, Kielce
Kielce, Poland
Photo credits
- John Lennon bust, Sopron music school: Photo: László Szlávics, Jr, CC-BY-SA-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized)
- John Lennon bust, Aleja Sław, Kielce: Photo: Sculptor: Tomasz Łukaszczyk Photographer: Paweł Cieśla Staszek Szybki Jest, CC-BY-SA-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized)
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