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

example, displayed a statue of a boy

47 made using this technique at an exhibition held in 1885. It was Arkay who won, with his entry embellished with figures made from beaten copper, the competition announced in 1889 for an ornamented fountain intended for what is today Vörösmarty tér in Pest.

48 (This project never proceeded beyond the design stage.) Lajos Marion's fountain grille

49 at Bajmóc (today Bojnice, Slovakia) with the figure of a knight on the top of it and his wall lamp displayed at an exhibition in Szeged in 1901

50 whose console was the arm of an armoured warrior are other examples. Ferenc Tiringer, a pupil of Gyula Jungfer, and Ádám Teichner also worked in beaten copper, although they did not mention sculpture in the round in an advertisement they placed in 1904.

M As well as the ironworker sculpture, the case of the warrior figures embellishing the pinnacles and gables of the Hungarian Parliament building proves that the circle of producers can be extended far beyond that of the artistsmiths. On the basis of information contained in periodicals,

52 these figures on the Parliament were at one time largely regarded as works by Jungfer,

53 until it emerged from 24. Genius figure presented at the Christmas Exhibition in the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts, 1905, repoussé copper 25. Genius figure, version cast from bronze, presented at the World Exposition, Milan, 1906 documents preserved there that they were in fact made at the Mátyás Zellerin tinsmith's firm in 1894.

54 In addition to the Parliament enterprise, in the course of another largescale construction project conducted in cooperation with Gyula Jungfer's factory, namely the alterations made to the Royal Castle, it was again others who were entrusted with the execution of works in beaten copper, as the example of the Steiner firm shows. The cast ironworker statue passed into the possession of a museum in Kassa (today Kosice, Slovakia) following a number of stops elsewhere.

55 After the Millennium Exhibition of 1896, it was owned by Antal Kerpely (1837-1907), the central director of the various ironworks in state hands. Following his appointment as a minister, he presented it to his friend Dr. Emil Samarjay, a lawyer. It remained in the Samarjay family villa in Haffner utca until 1942, when it was taken to the offices of an ironmongery business. Later, after the Second World