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

Funeral Art in the First Half of the 20th Century

■ Pál Pátzay: Aladár Kuncz'ó tomb

was set up over Kálmán Kandó’s grave in 1936 (K 46). Gusztáv Végh designed Simon Enyedi’s (F 6/7) and Sándor Pajor’s (K 35) well-proportioned tombstones. A characteristic group of contemporaneous works is made of a few architects' sepulchral monuments which bear reliefs representing the deceased crowning achievement. Such is the monument made by Henrik Kotál and Sándor Szege for Ignác Alpár's grave unveiled in 1929 (K 19), Szilárd Zielinszky’s tomb by Gyula Wälder and Jenő Bory (K 10/1) or Alajos Hauszmann's by Dezső Hültl and Viktor Vass (K 10/1).

Besides the increasingly anachronistic Neo-Baroque and related tendencies of the 1930s, an equally conservative and yet a stylistically more modern approach emerged. The innovative attitude was primarily embraced by sculptors who came under the influence of the Rome school. By that time Farkasrét Cemetery had come to compete with Kerepesi út Cemetery in its significance, which is why large numbers of works demonstrating the new directions in fune52