Buza Péter: Spring and Fountains - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

all of which were exhibited in the Exhibition Hall in Heroes’ Square. This event is likely to have been the first case where the public was allowed to voice an opinion.

A young sculptor won the first prize with his shepherd watering his sheep. The theme he chose brought him disaster. He caught a deadly disease from a sick sheep and was, before he could start executing his design, killed by the subject of his work.

Another competition had then to be started, which was won by Barnabás Holló. The base of his composition, which stands in Corvin tér, is a three-tiered stone basin whose central column supports the bronze figure of a pagan Hungarian warrior who, with his dog at his feet, quenches his thirst with water from a drinking horn. Visible in a niche in one plane of the column is a relief portrait of Millacher, and the inscription reading “Lajos kútja” [Louis’ Fountain].

SeNYEI'S statue of children hunting gopher may soon be taken back to Vigadó tér. The work, entitled Children Catching Fish was

ALREADY REHABILITATED EARLIER AND SINCE THE SEVENTIES HAS STOOD BY ONE WING OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY IN THE FORMER ROYAL PALACE

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