Magyar News, 2006. január-május (17. évfolyam, 1-5. szám)
2006-03-01 / 3. szám
The house where Shakespeare was born Stratford on Avon is very busy, At many places they have signs like this. Shakespeare series Vincze created medals for the 1969 bicentenary of the 'Garrick Jubilee', and for the first International Shakespeare Association Congress in 1976, a medal which bore a tribute to the bicentennial of the United States on the obverse. Other anniversaries that were commemorated by Vincze medals included JB Priestley’s eightieth birthday, and the centenaries of Charles Dickens and Sir Henry Wood. Further commissions included portraits in bronze of Presidents Truman and Kennedy, pope Paul VI, Sir Winston Churchill, and the Aga Khan. In 1981 for the new Visitors' Centre at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust the original bronze master casts for all 37 Shakespeare medals were mounted on a St. Christofer medal with a chain attached timber panel specially built by Gordon Russell furniture makers of Broadway in Worcestershire. To complete the panel Vincze added a small selfportrait medal as his 'signature. One of Vincze's final sculptures marked the retirement of Dr. Levi Fox after 44 years as Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. This bronzehead was mounted on the marble commemorativecpanel erected in the Shakespeare Centre's foyer in 1989 by the Birthplace Trustees. Paul Vincze received many international awards for his work, including the Premio Especial (Madrid) and, in 1966, the first Gold medal of the American Numismatic Association. He died at his home in the south of France in 1994.” ©Marian J Pringle Once again we are very thankful for this article. Hopefully Ms. Pringle will have some other Hungarian who gave his talent to promote in someway the great tradition of Shakespeare. If you ever go to England make sure that besides walking around Stone henge, and touch the hot waters of of Bath, you visit a most exciting city, Stratford on Avon. To the right and below are some of the 37 medals that Paul Vincze created for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Going down on the right are King Lear, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night 's Dream. And below is the Macbeth medal. Above is a typical street where history and modem technology, as cars and cellphones, mix, and make up the view of today Page 3
