Tóth Vilmos: Funeral Art - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2006)

Funeral Arts in the 19th Century

■ The portrait on Ferenc Toidy’s tomb wad made by Adott Huszár

János Balassa’s late Neo-Classicist tomb, was made in József Engel's workshop in the 1870s (K wall). Consisting of a sculptural portrait and two allegorical figures set against the background of a mock-pyramid, the monument revived motifs of an already-outdated style of funereal art.

Also located by the wall of Kerepesi út Cemetery is Ábrahám Ganz’s mausoleum, designed by Miklós Ybl in 1868-69 (K wall). Although funeral pieces occupy a pre-eminent position in the oeuvre of Ybl, the majority of these works can be found on the country estates of Hungary's nobility; the Ganz Mausoleum is his only important sepulchral construction in Budapest. Other works by him in Kerepesi út Cemetery, such as the architectural component of the Baron Gerliczys made in 1870 (K 21), or Endre Tavaszy’s tombstone unveiled in 1883 (K 34/1), occupy a lesser place in Ybl’s life-work. The funeral vault designed around 1874 by Ödön Lechner for his wife, who died young, is

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