Tóth Vilmos: Funeral Art - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2006)
No major monographic treatment of the issue exists, and this work is not meant to serve as such either. Much useful written and pictorial material on Budapest’s funeral monuments has appeared in the art journals of the period before 1945 (Művéózet, Magyar Művészet, Magyar Iparművészet, Művészi Ipar, Építő Ipar, Budapesti Építészeti Szemle, A Ház, Tér és Forma, etc.). Besides current art criticism, these sources contain descriptions of earlier and newly unveiled objects of art as well as articles by architects introducing their own works. Popular picture magazines, such as Vasárnapi Újság (Sunday News), published at the time are also of considerable interest, due to the relevant data they contain. Relevant material published in the magazines and journals of the post-1945 period is infrequent but not entirely absent. One remarkable contribution to the field was the special edition of Ars Hungarica in 1983. Some of the studies published in the issue have a continuing relevance to this day. Of these Lajos Németh’s theoretical introduction as well as articles introducing Geren- day’s workshop of monumental masonry (by Mária Kemény), the Kossuth Mausoleum (by Csilla E. Csorba) and Béla Lajta's life-work in funereal arts (by Valéria Majoros) deserve special mention. Later issues of Ars Hunga rica also carried important pieces relevant to this topic, including a 2002 article by Gábor György Papp on funeral monuments made by Kálmán Gerster. ■ Alajos Stróbl: One oh the Panthers on the Kossuth Mausoleum 7
