Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 26. (Budapest, 2008)

Ildikó PANDUR: Variations on a Sculpture. Questions and Answers Concerning the 'Ironworker' Sculpture Formerly in the Jungfer Collection

8. Mining and Metallurgy Pavilion of the Exhibition of Ironworks in Hungary. Detail of the Millennial Exhibition, Budapest, 1896 nique and the former by means of casting, since, after the exhibition, the cast artefact passed into the possession of Antal Kerpely (1837-1907), a mining engineer and overall director of the above-mentioned stateowned iron producers. It was Kerpely who, in connection with the millennial year, gave a detailed account of the condition of irons'. The interior of the Hall of Industry of the Millennial Exhibition, Budapest, 1896 working in Hungary, illustrated with photographs of the above-mentioned pavilion, among other things.

18 The distinctive ironworker statue featured not only at exhibitions in Hungary, but also at those abroad. On an archive photograph, it can be seen in front of the entrance of the Hungarian pavilion (designed by Pál Horti) at the first International Applied Arts Exhibition, staged in Turin in 1902 (ill. II).

19 At this show many small sculptures featured, by Sándor Apáti Abt, György Vastagh the Younger, József Damkó, Elza Kövesházy Kalmár, Miklós Ligeti, Ede Teles, and others. (Gyula Jungfer's gong stand, made to a design by Frigyes Spiegel, was likewise to be 10. Statue of Ironworker in the Hall of Industry of the Millennial Exhibition, Budapest, 1896