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

21. Horse-herder, version cast from bronze. Beschorner's Casting House, Budapest, 1900 Academy of Music

40 in Budapest were designed by Géza Maróti. (ill. 23) On the basis of a model by him, they were made in the Steiners' factory, 'in a relatively short time and in impeccable quality'.

41 For the excellent work, which the public, too, was able to admire at the 1905 Christmas exhibition held in Budapest's Museum of 22. Horse-herder, small sculpture placed in the office of the mayor of Budapest, presented at the World Exposition, Paris, 1900 Applied Arts, Hungary's Minister of Commerce awarded a (state) applied arts medal

42 (ill. 24). This exhibition at the Museum was not the only one at which Genius figures were displayed. Other examples of them featured at a number of additional shows, too,

43 for example at the Milan World Exposition in 1906, where an example in bronze was erected in the foreground of the Hungarian stand

44 (ill. 25). In 1909, in co-operation with the Ármin Steiner concern, the Jungfer factory produced, in beaten copper and likewise to designs by Géza Maróti, the sculptural group on the cupola of the Teatro Nacional (today the Palacio de Bellas Artes) in Mexico City.

45 (In some publications, this enormous work is described as cast bronze;

46 ill. 26.) It may have been at this time that the ironworker sculpture reached to the Jungfer factory, in connection with the co-operation between the two firms, which at the present moment is still unclear. It is unlikely that a firm other than Steiner Brothers would have made an additional beaten copper example of this model, although many of Jungfer'

s contemporaries undertook the production of sculptures made of beaten copper and much data could be given on them. Sándor Árkay, for 23. Genius figures at the facade of the Academy of Music, Budapest, repoussé copper