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

Part of Section 11

ture by Géza Csorba, over the poet’s ashes. Opposite this stands a monumental sculptural composition by Elemér Fülöp, depicting the actress Lujza Blaha, “the sweetest singer of the land”. The monument of General Simonyi, “the most gallant hussar”, made in the Gerenday stone carving workshop is behind the actress in Section 18. It is in this section that photographer György Klösz is buried; our image of what Budapest looked like a hundred years ago has primarily been shaped by his work.

In the archway, evocative of cemeteries found in northern Italy, there are real masterpieces by the most significant sculptors of the turn of the century. Here, however, only a few of these prominent figures will be mentioned: the sarcophagus by Sándor Szege in front of this gallery of tombs is adorned with reliefs representing the best known works of architect Ignác Alpár, who is buried here. The funerary monument of the physician Endre Hőgyes is ornamented with his portrait and a female figure by János Kopits; next to that is the monument of two members of a dynasty of renowned physicians Frigyes Korányi and his son Sándor Korányi with a bronze sculpture consisting of three figures by Miklós Ligeti. In the vaulted hall built without walls on the right of the archway, a wrought-iron crucifix marks the resting place of Artúr Görgey, general of the revolutionary army, who conducted the military operations in the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-49. The tombstone of chemist Károly Thán was made by János Istók; next to this is the vault of the Jungfer family, whose members were all internationally recognised blacksmiths. Somewhat farther away, you can see the monu27