Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)

Ildikó PANDUR: Links between the Oeuvres of Ödön Lechner and Gyula Jungfer

11. Shelves in the repository of the Library in the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest to the security of the pictures (iron rods fastened to the frames, hangers, connecting rods, etc.)

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3 In 1903 there was a cost estimate added to a Jungfer price bid "for the picture suspending rods necessary for the gallery and storage rooms" according to the drawn model of the construction department.

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4 Data on similar mass-scale orders without any artistic value have importance mostly for museum and workshop history and illustrate that even the famous Jungfer workshop did not always receive high-level artistic commissions. That was even more so after the outbreak of World War I in the year of Ödön Lechner's death, when wrought iron making was pushed into the background for both technical and economic reasons. 103