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

Funeral Art in the First Half of the 20th Century

■ Józóet Damkó:

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made Gyula Derkovits’s sepulchral monument for Kerepesi út Cemetery; when the painter’s remains were removed to the Labour Pantheon, the sculpture was taken to the National Gallery. Béla Szenes’s tombstone stands in the Kozma utca Jewish Cemetery, an almost fully non-figurative work and as such a unique piece of Medgyessy’s oeuvre.

Besides Beck's and Medgyessy’s works, important funeral compositions include Márk Vedres’s finely wrought, classic-tempered reliefs, such as those on the Neumann and Sarbó tombs (F 7/4 and K 20/2 respectively), and, especially, his St. Martin and the Beggarman marking the Moskovitz grave (K 20/1). Two funeral monuments made in the early 1930s by László Mészáros are of particular significance: those for the tombs of Gusztáv Mallász (F1/7) and Lajos Mikes (K 34).

An important event of the interwar period Was the tender competition inviting designs for Endre Ady’s funeral monument (K 19) in 1928. Entered by

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