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

18. Plaster cast in 1/3 size of the Triumphal Chariot with the Genius of the Enlightenment for the Palace of fustice, 1895 supplied with the Steiner mark that were made for the Castle Garden and erected on the East Terrace. These were likewise displayed at St. Louis by the firm, next to the 'Ironworker' statue.

35 A large-sized horse-herder sculpture envisaged by Hauszmann and made from beaten copper after a model by György Vastagh the Younger was also present at a world exposition (ill. 20). In February 1900, before delivery to Paris, it was erected in front of the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, and when Francis Joseph inspected the work there, the two Steiner brothers explained to the Fung how it had been made.

36 The popular horse-herder sculpture

37 was - like the ironworker creation executed using a number of different techniques and in a number of different scales. 19. Drawing of the Triumphal Chariot, around 1900-1901 Cast by the Beschorner firm, a small example approximately 30 cm high adorned the Office of the Mayor of Budapest exhibited at Hungary's applied arts display at the Paris World Exposition of 1900;

38 a critic considered it the most successful of the smaller sculptures on show there

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' (ills. 21-22). Almost 4 m in height, the two enormous Genius figures on the facade of the 20. Horse-herder, repousse copper, present state