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

Kerepesi út Cemetery at the Turn of the 20th Century

to plans by Gerster to which Stróbl sculpted a lion figure. The sculpture made for Zsigmond Reiner’s tomb was made in the likeness of the Virgin Mary and King Stephen (K 29/3). Mihály Zichy’s tomb was topped in 1916 with a dynamic, virtuoso portrait sculpted years earlier (K 28).

Stróbl's most important funeral work and one of the genre’s greatest achievements is the sepulchre made for the remains of Dezső Szilágyi in 1908 (K 29), in particular the allegorical component of the monument, a powerful lion figure holding a law book in its paws. The Tátra granite, which is regarded as the most enduring statue material, was sculpted into an emblematic piece: the sculptor’s symbolic self-portrait, the summation of his life's work radiating pride and dignity. The finest sculptural details of the Kossuth Mausoleum (K 22—23), a monument designed in 1901—02 and unveiled in 1909, are also animal figures — two panthers guarding the gate. The other sculptures on the mausoleum, the armed figure of Hungary and the winged genius leading

■ Reziő Hiklich and György Zala: the funeral monument of Ákos Beöthy

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