Kisné Cseh Julianna (szerk.): Annales Tataienses IV. Arx – oppidum - civitas. A vártól a városig. Tata évszázadai. Tata Város Önkormányzata – Mecénás Közalapítvány, Tata, 2004.
P. Tóth Enikő: Schwaiger Antal szobrász szoborművei a tati Esterházy-uradalom területén
Sculptures by Antal Schwaiger in the territory of the Esterházy estate of Tata Enikő P. Tóth Schwaiger Antal, who worked in the field of the 18 th-century Hungarian faience sculpture and plastic art, came to Tata in 1768 from Holies, where he created works of plastic art for the faience manufacture established by Charles of Lotharingia. After endeavours to establish a factory (1758), faience manufacturing started again in 1768 under the guidance of Antal Schwaiger, András Pram and Pál Deutscher. Little are we informed of Schwaiger's life: his place of birth is unknown, while the year of his birth (1728) can be detected in the obituary of Tata, which lets us know that he died on 23 June, 1802, at the age of 74. Besides being active in the faience factory, in the course of time he was commissioned by the estate to create major stone or wooden sculptures and groups of statues. The sculpture of the high altar in the chapel of the former Piarist monastery in Tata (between 1769 and 1770), presently housed by the upstairs chapel of the Piarist monastery in Kecskemét. A sculptural group with the statue of Saint John of Nepomuk (1770), situated under the Kecske (Goat) Bastion of the Tata Castle, on a bridge built by Jakab Fellner. Calvary scruptural group (c. 1770) erected on the Kálvária (Calvary) Hill in Tata, on a circular substructure near the Kálvária Chapel. Sculptures of the church of Our Lady in Vértessomlyó: high altar - the statues of Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, two statues of angels situated on the two sides of the triumphal arch (c. 1770), the altar of Saint Apollónia, with the statues of two male saints (1773), the pulpit with the statues of the four Evangelists and a depiction of the Good Shepherd (c. 1770), the altar of Saint Rosalia with the figures of Saint Rosalia, Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch (1772). The statue of Maria Immaculata, standing in the place of the shrine of the former Saint Blaise parish church in the old marketTpIace (between 1782 and 1784). Sculptures of the high altar of the Saint Cross parish church in Tata: corpus of Christ, two angels, God's eye surrounded by clouds, four Corinthian capitals (17851786) and other pieces of work intended for the church. Schwaiger's works intended to be placed in the landscape garden in Tata: the pediment sculptures of the Garden Pavilion (1784, 1785), two griffins of dressed stone (1801), a sculptural fragment of a female head (between the end of the 18 th century and 1801), two busts of Roman men (between the end of the 18 th century and 1802), as well as other works referred to in historic sources. A fountain statue (the so-called Nymph of the Fountain) in the garden of the Esterházy Castle in Tata, facing the flight of stairs of the Garden Pavilion (c. 1785). The coat of arms of the Kietreiber Mill in Tata (1795). 129
