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

Funeral Art in the First Half of the 20th Century

sepulchral monuments of Gyula Pékár (K 48/3) and Tibor Vámossy (F 45/1). Although Siklódy was a major practitioner of the military theme, many of his well-known works, such as the Radies or the Balázs tombs (K 11 and 46 respectively) applied a lyrical tone. Several individual and communal monuments were set up in the former heroes' section of the Rákoskeresztúr burial ground, including works by Jenő Körmendi-Frim, Ferenc Márton, and Éva Löte.

A number of family vaults were also built in the period, but most of these do no more than echo the style characterising the heyday of the type in the 19th century. Of the more significant family tombs, mention should be made of the Miklós Mausoleum designed by Jenő Rados (K 9/2), the Herzog—Hat- vany Mausoleum built to plans by Béla Barát and Ede Novák (K 36/2) and Gyula Wälder's work, the mausoleum of the Krausz family (K 51). Wälder’s designs include those made for smaller tombs, too, the best-known of which

■ Mihály Dabóczi: the funeral monument of Láizló Gerentiér

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