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NEW ACQUISITIONS, NEW RESULTS - Antal TÓTH: A Yet Unacknowledged Collaboration between János Fadrusz and Géza (Maróti) Rintel

rural part, the substructure, however, is shaped in fin-de-siècle artnouveau fashion in its formation of mass, the assembly of pyramid frustums and its not having a parapet. These were perfectly eked out by the four reliefs of Rintel, giving a fine vignette to the long text in runes underneath. We will not and cannot question that it was Fadrusz who made the designs for the reliefs, but they certainly reflect the taste of Rintel and not Fadrusz, for they embody the most archaic rules of relief making, notably: isocephalism and the multiplication of the contours of the figures lining up behind one another, which give a thrilling graphicalness and a sense of mass to the flat reliefs. We have no records of how Géza Rintel and János Fadrusz came to collaborate. We know from his biography, that Rintel, after an apprenticeship as a stone carver and studies at the Drawing Teachers' Training College, embarked on a career of exhibiting his sculptures and producing various applied-art works. From 1901, his commissions for architectural sculptures began to proliferate. Most of these were not registered in the catalogue of his works, and the reliefs of the Zilah monument must have been among the first of these.

5 NOTES 1 The expression coined by Béla Lázár. Other variant names include: Chief Tuhutum's Monument; Tuhutum Memorial, etc. 2 Dr. Lázár, Béla. Fadrusz János élete és művészete. Budapest: Athenaeum Irodalmi és Nyomdai Rt., n.d. [1923], plate no. XLII. 3 Lakóné Hegyi, Éva. "A zilahi turulmadaras emlékmű." In: "Szivekben égjen a láng". Fadrusz János-emlékkönyv. Kolozsvár, 2004, pp, 96-100. 4 Magvar Iparművészet. 1904, p. 68. They are, of course, no part of the Wesselényi monument, and their material is not bronze, but a zinc alloy. * A bird in the ancestral myth of the Magyars - the trans. 5 Köpöczi, Rózsa. Maróti Géza és Zebegény. Szentendre: PMI, 2003. The biography was compiled by Piroska Acs. See also Acs, Piroska ed. "'Mi vagyunk Atlantisz' - Vederemo! Iparművészeti Múzeum." N.p. [Budapest], n.d. [2002]. 3. János Fadrusz - Géza Maróti Rintel: Tuhutum Altar, 1902 Reproduced from: Lázár, op. cit., plate no. XLII