Imre Jakabffy (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 4. (Budapest, 1976)

IVÁNFY-BAL0GH, Sára - JAKABFFY, Imre: Géza R. Maróti

drawn by Alajos Stróbl while the other one drawn and moulded in bronze and ivory by Maróti. He was dealing only casually with the medal, but the plaque in bronze representing his 3 — 4 years old daughter makes grace- and eharmful impression in tasty presentation. Between 1902 and 1913 on several occasions appointments had been put up for competition concerning a monument as a memorial of the Queen Elizabeth. Maróti was placed high on it and rewarded langely. In 1905 the jury members of the Hungarian war of independence (1848 — 49) statue competition proposed among 18 competition essays 4 for purchase, one of them was Maróti's. The clay model, planned to a heigh of 27 m and representing the Liberty by a symbol is an appropriate example of Maróti's inclination for the cleansed monumentability

5 (Fig. 2). The municipality of Milan organized in spring 1900 on the occasion of the inauguration of the Simplon tunnel an international traffic and applied arts exhibition. The Hungarian pavilion arranged by Maróti, by its special national summary but parallel with European claims and temperately in the glory of the Art Nouveau introduced our applied arts. Maróti had been charged with the arrangement of the applied arts part of the exhibition by the Hungarian Society of Applied Arts. The costs of the exhibition had been reduced to the smalles degree, however 1. BORDER DESIGN FOR THE FRONT IS PIECE OF THE JOURNAL „MAGYAR IPARMŰVÉSZET " (1901)