Tóth Vilmos: Funeral Art - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2006)
Funeral Art in the First Half of the 20th Century
real arts were set up in both of these burial grounds. However, the Farkasrét site is still of greater significance from the viewpoint of the Rome school. Even an impressive architectural complex was built here in the new style comprising a funeral chapel opened in 1938, a campanile and a mortuary together with a row of arcaded sepulchres, the main gate, a porter's lodge and the neighbouring walls. Built to plans by Ferenc Módos and Virgil Krassói, the complex was an outstanding piece of Hungary’s contemporary ecclesiastic architecture and has every claim to be regarded as one of the best church buildings of the period. The chapel was destroyed during World War II, with its walls and crypt re-used as a columbarium, and the surviving sections of the campanile turned into a burial site of the labour movement, but several parts of the original complex are still identifiable. The first to be mentioned of the sculptor of the Rome school is Pál Pátzay. Standing out among his classical funeral works of noble beauty with its deeply stirring and thought-provoking Christ figure is the tombstone of Aladár Kuncz ■ field Ohmann: the tomb oh Zoltán Gerevlch 53