Hutník, Sandstone sculpture at Alšovo náměstí, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic.

Hutník is a sandstone sculpture depicting a foundry worker portrayed in work clothes with one foot resting on a steel profile. The work stands about 11 feet (3.5 meters) tall and sits on a rectangular concrete base in the small park facing Alšovo náměstí.

Hutník was carved by Antonín Ivanský (1910–2000) from a block of Hořice sandstone roughly 350 × 90 cm, set on a prismatic concrete plinth about 100 × 180 cm on a 220 cm concrete foundation. It follows his Horník of 1952, installed in 1960 at Dělnická and Skautská streets. In 2022, after sixty years, restoration began to remove dust deposits and biological growth covering about 80% of the surface, inject cracks and apply a hydrophobic coating.

The figure portrays a foundry worker in work clothes and serves as a symbol of how heavy industry shaped daily life in the city. The depiction connects to the pride workers felt in their craft and how this labor defined the entire region.

The statue stands in the middle of a small park, facing Alšovo náměstí, so it can be walked around and seen from all sides. The sandstone surface was treated in a restoration begun in 2022, when dust deposits and biological growth were removed and cracks injected.

The figure forms a thematic pair with another sculpture called Horník, created by the same artist and located at the intersection of Dělnická and Skautská streets. Together these two works create an artistic monument to different types of industrial workers in the city.