Déry Attila: Budapest eklektikus épületszobrászata (Művészettörténet - műemlékvédelem 1 Országos Műemlékvédelmi Hivatal, 1991)

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authorship is very questionable in many cases, because he was employed by Leo Feszler for a long time together with Béla Brestyánszky. He worked for Leo Feszler and together with Béla Brestyányszky to Feszler as well and on his own, too. His co-operation with Brestyánszky was continued after Feszler had retired, too. OPPENHEIMER, IGNÁC (? - 1919) He was a technically well qualified sculptor. As an entrepeneur he was a mostly employed master of his age. He undertook tasks that were either rejected by mas-product making stone-cutters or did not interest artist sculptures. Just a few figurai works of him are known. The characteristic signs of his figurai sculptures are the relaxed posture opposite to the contemporary sculptors' „setting in" method depending on their qualification. He tried to go round the problem of the exact, „body-construction" with his mannerism. First he made neo-renaissance character sections. In the 1890-s he conformed to the taste of neo-baroque-minded eclecticism. At the turning of the century he went by the new architectural line, the secession. It is not known for sure how much Géza Maróti (Rintel) contributed to his works for secessionist buildings. SCHAFFER, KÁROLY (1833 - Budapest, 1911) He was a qualified ornamenter-sculptor who worked on a particularly high level within the frame of postclassicism adjusted to renaissance taste eclectisism. His figures can be recognized by their specific, mannered composition. Formal, stiff posture, fine shaped veil-drapery, there are headpiece forms characteristically of figurai monumental sculpture of 4-5th century A.D. on an unusually thick neck, smooth, simplified features, overdone, rushed, Egyptian eyes, stylized hair. Faces are surprisingly wide in spite of the sinography's shortening. They are especially disturbing at putto-sculptures. Supposedly his mannerism was intended. His spandrel sculptures and putto reliefs followed neo-renaissance demands and not the antique ideas. SCHRÖDL, EMIL (? - ?) Emil Schrödl was a sculptor-stone-cutter without independent ingenuity. His works didn't reach beyond section-making and executing artifical stone parts in good quality. SZÁN DHÁZ-WORKSHOP SZANDHÁZ, KÁROLY (Eger, 9.1. 1824 - Budapest, 16. 12. 1892) and SZANDHÁZ, FERENC (Eger, 1827 - Budapest, 1902) The Szandház brothers' sculptural decoration practice based on a classicist qualification but it was conformed to the requirements of neo-renaissance taste eclecticism. Their works were made by anatomical knowledge but they didn't break open the composition of the building facade. The renaissance taste, figurai sculptures of Károly Szandház were not succesful. The brothers gave up their common works in 1879.