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

26. Sculptural group for the dome of the Teatro Nációnál, Mexico City, around 1908 War, it stood in the warehouse of a delivery firm.

56 In 1956 it was purchased by Kassa Museum from Emil Samarjay and brought from Pozsony (today Bratislava, Slovakia) to Kassa.

57 The history of the repoussé 'Ironworker' statue is less known. For the time being, we do not know how it reached the Jungfer atelier, from where, following the nationalization of that enterprise, it came to the Museum of Applied Arts. This was not its first time there: as is proven by a photograph taken around 1902,

58 it had been in the Museum earlier, on view to the public in the aula of the building (ill. 27). After leaving the Museum's Jungfer collection, the piece, along with a number of other large artworks, was kept for a time at the István Dobó Museum in Eger. There it was noticed by the archaeologist Márton Rozsnyói, who called it to the attention of László Dobosy, at that time the head of the Ózd Circle for Knowledge Concerning Hungary. Through his intercession, in February 1966 the statute was taken to Ózd, at the request of the Ózd Metallurgy Works.

59 There damage to it was repaired and missing parts - the implement (pincers) held in one hand and the piece of work in the other - were replaced, using the Kassa 27. Ironworker

's statue exhibited in the aula of the Budapest Museum op Applied Arts, 1901-1902