Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

The tomb of Sándor Erkel and Győző Czigler

ALONG THE WALKWAY LEADING TO THE DEÁK MAUSOLEUM

Continuing this walk on a road lined by plane trees in the direction of the mausoleum of Ferenc Deák, you can see, on the right, the burial ground of the civilian casualties of the 1956 Uprising (Section 21). Further down the road, in Section 28 on the left, is Miklós Barabás's tomb topped with the painter’s bust by Ede Teles. Composer- conductor Sándor Erkel is buried in the row of honour beneath a magnificent, Art Nouveau memorial by architect Géza Márkus and sculptor József Róna; next to this is the obelisk of the architect Győző Czigler, who designed, among other things, the market halls of Budapest. The portrait of the painter and graphic artist Mihály Zichy is the work of Alajos Stróbl; the celebrated actress Mari Jászai had her own tombstone built by Károly Miákich, Béla Seeger and Jenő Szabó, while she was still alive, carved out of stones from the former Nemzeti Színház (National Theatre), which stood at the Astoria; moreover, she had her own poem carved on it. Next to this can be seen the obelisk of Ödön Lechner, a genius of Hungarian architecture. The tombstone of General István Türr, hero of Hungarian and Italian freedom struggles, is some distance away, as is the grave of the sculptor János Fadrusz, ornamented with a crucifix he himself made. The bust of the first deputy mayor of the unified Budapest Károly Gerló- czy is the work of Antal Széchi. Next to him lies the first mayor of the capital Károly Kamermayer under a statue by Gyula Donáth. The tomb of the painter Károly Lotz features a sculpture by János Pásztor. The monument above the grave of Miklós Bartha, politician, made by architect La20