Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 26. (Budapest, 2008)
Ildikó PANDUR: Variations on a Sculpture. Questions and Answers Concerning the 'Ironworker' Sculpture Formerly in the Jungfer Collection
13. Disciples of Alajos Stróbl with Ede Margó (Morgenstern) sitting on the left side. Photograph from 1894 Sculpture of the School of Design). Later on, he trained himself in Paris. Ede Margó's authorship is also supported by a photograph showing a group of works at the Millennial Exhibition that were made by Stróbl's pupils 28 (ill. 14). On the right side of the picture, there is a sideways view of the distinctive figure of the ironworker, the making of which - like the other works of his pupils - the master surely supervised and followed with attention. An additional example of the already well-known worker figure could accordingly be seen by visitors in a third location at the Millennial Exhibition, in the Education Group. The worker theme was not alien to Ede Margó: he designed ironworker figures on a number of occasions. At the Paris World Exposition of 1900, he made two major sculptural groups for the Hungarian section of the Mining and Metallurgy Group. Mining was represented by five figures in front of an enormous wall built of coal and iron ore ('iron rocks') (ill. 15). On the lefthand side can be seen a collier and on the right-hand side a miner of iron ore. In the middle, in front of rocks, a demolition worker gathers together fuses. Hercules perching among the rocks represents the power of dynamite, and the female figure standing at the top of the group stands for its beneficial work. 2 " Of the works by the sculptor, another, made for the same world exposition, is better known. This was a sculptural group consisting of three workers and bearing the title 'Martin Steel'. A spectacular element of the Metallurgy Section was 'the Siemens-Martin furnace, one of the mightiest aids to modern steel production', on a platform in front of which 'three sturdy workers go about tapping the furnace' 30 (ill. 16). 14. Works by the disciples of Alajos Stróbl presented at the Millennial Exhibition, Budapest, 1896 15. Mining. Monument presented in the section of the Mining and Metallurgy Group of the Hungarian Pavilion, Paris, World Exposition, 1900
