This vertically oriented grave monument located along one of Olšany’s tree-lined paths features a cultivated and harmonious combination of a portrait bust by Otakar Španiel (1881–1955) with the Purist architectural vocabulary of Josef Gočár (1880–1945), with both elements engaging in a balanced dialogue that underscores the respect and social renown accorded the person buried here.

The monument was erected in 1927 in memory of the prominent lawyer František Fiedler, an elected member of the Imperial Council and the Bohemian Diet, Cisleithanian Minister of Trade, associate professor of agricultural law at the Czech technical school (today’s Czech Technical University), and professor of administrative sciences at the Czech university (today’s Charles University). Fiedler was also a special member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Arts (today’s Czech Academy of Sciences) and was actively involved in the Czechoslovak independence movement during the First World War. His daughter Miroslava married professor Jaroslav Kučera, who lectured and wrote on the subject of electrical machines at the School of Machine and Electrotechnical Engineering (today’s Electrotechnical Faculty at Czech Technical University), and they are both buried here as well, along with their daughter Olga Durychová and her prematurely deceased son Martin.

This is neither Gočár nor Španiel’s only funerary work. That same year, Španiel also did a relief titled The Pilgrimess for a gravestone that Gočár designed for Minister of Education František Drtina. Previously at Olšany, he had also collaborated with Gočár’s teacher, the architect Jan Kotěra, on a grave monument for the Schauer family (1922). As a respected medal maker and portrait artist, Španiel approached his funerary work with a sense for capturing the subject’s personality in an understated manner. He created portrait busts of violinists Ferdinand Laub (†1875) and František Ondříček (1922), another for the composer Josefína Brdlíková (1910), and a grave monument for his son Ivan Španiel (†1944) at Vyšehrad Cemetery. Gočár’s first foray into the field of sepulchral architecture was a design for Josef Kaizl’s grave at Vyšehrad in 1908–1909. His first work at Olšany was the 1922 renovation of the Mánes family grave.

The Fiedler family gravestone consists of a monumental stele made of honed light-gray Mrákotín granite with a circular niche holding a realistic bust – a bronze sculpture with a natural patina placed on a low granite plinth that visually separates it from the background to create an intimate visual field resembling a portrait medallion. The gilded carved epitaph makes use of simple geometric sans-serif lettering that contributes to the monument’s overall austere and modern appearance.

The monument has been well maintained and has thus not needed any restoration work.