Monument of Beethoven, Bronze monument in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

The Beethoven monument stands on the left bank of the Teplá river between the Richmond hotel and the Poštovní dvůr. It has a semicircular plan with a monumental staircase of St. Petersburg granite. On the central pedestal, inscribed BEETHOVEN, stands a bronze figure at twice life size, stepping forward in a billowing cloak with a clenched right fist. Two curved balustrades lead to side pillars carrying relief panels.

A committee formed in 1912 for the centenary of Beethoven's stay was halted by the First World War. After Czechoslovakia's founding, the decision was made to remove the monument to Emperor Franz Joseph I and place Beethoven's there. Hugo Uher won the competition; the bronze was cast by Franta Anýž's foundry and unveiled on 29 September 1929.

The monument recalls Beethoven's two 1812 stays in Karlovy Vary, when he lodged at the Boží oko house on the site of today's Grandhotel Pupp. On 6 August 1812 he and violinist Giovanni Battista Polledro gave a charity concert in the Český sál for the victims of the Baden fire; admission was by voluntary donation and the proceeds reached only 958 gulden. A second visit that September brought his last meeting with Goethe.

The monument sits within a park and is easily reached when approaching from the hotel area on the south side. The location is accessible on foot, especially when walking from the town center.

The two bronze relief panels on the side pillars, signed "H. Uher" and showing life-size female nudes, were taken down in 1946 and probably destroyed. In 2012 replicas in hardened plastic with a bronze patina, made by sculptor Heřman Kouba, were mounted and unveiled on 4 August 2012 in the presence of German ambassador Detlef Lingemann.