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

Funeral Art in the Second Half of the 20th Century

1972 was Mihály Váci’s attractive monument by Sándor Nagy (F 6/3), a replica of which was set up as an agrarian monument in a public space of Nyíregyháza. It serves as another example of how questionable a sepulchral monument's close association with any one person and how uncertain the borderline between the genres can be, or how important a part is played by epitaphs.

Connected with the name of Pál Kő are such significant funeral works as the figure of the actor playing King Lear’s part on Imre Ráday's tomb (F 25), Lőrinc Kovai's sepulchral monument in Rákoskeresztúr Cemetery or the two- figure statue on Károly Reich’s tomb destroyed and then stolen within a year of its unveiling in Farkasrét Cemetery. Richárd Török made Gábor Ihász's funeral monument set up in Rákoskeresztúr Cemetery. The statue over Blanka Péchy’s tomb is the work of András Kiss Nagy (K 42/1), and the faceless angel

■ litván Bánkuti:

Our Father (the tomb of Láizló Bánkuti)

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