Prohászka László: Equestrian Statues - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

St. George (on a relief in the wall of the Sándor Palace)

teen years in this partially ruined condition in Palota tér, until it was demolished in 1959-60. In 1961, its place was taken by István Kiss’s Dózsa monument, a composition which, with its lack of unity, failed to fill up the space around it as harmoniously as had the unified mass of the artillery monument.

After the inauguration of these well-known monuments, there remained one more ceremony of this nature to be performed in the late thirties. On 14 May 1939 a statue of St. George, patron saint of cavalrymen, was unveiled by the main building of the Ludovika Military Academy, on the edge of the nearby commons. Artist Sándor Oláh, who was not, incidentally, counted among the leading sculptors of the period, placed his smaller-than-life-size, bronze St. George on a high, limestone pediment. The figure leans down from the saddle of his horse as it thrusts its spear into the dragon. Although the artist was not uninfluenced by the sixteenth-century masterpiece of the brothers of Ko44