Tóth Vilmos: Funeral Art - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2006)

Kerepesi út Cemetery at the Turn of the 20th Century

artistic excellence. His first major commission was for Deák's above-mentioned sarcophagus; Stróbl worked for years on the pallet-covered figure of the decedent and the winged allegory. In the same period he made the sculptural decoration of János Arany’s funeral monument designed by Kálmán Gerster and unveiled in 1885 (K 14). Inspired by classical models, the graciously beautiful bronze sarcophagus features two floral motifs of rich symbolism — a wreath of oak leaves and a palm leaf. Unveiled in 1890, the funeral monument made for Károly Henneberg bears the mourning figure of a hussar, the first equestrian statue to appear in Kerepesi út Cemetery (K 24/1). Here, too, the architecture was designed by Gerster, but unlike the Arany Monument, this tomb is clearly dominated by the sculpture. In the 1890s Stróbl made funeral sculptures for the shrines of Miklós Ybl (K 34/1) and Ignác Vögerl (K wall), and then the Koch- meister Monument, which now adorns the tomb of József Márkus (K 9). Unveiled in 1903 in Kozma utca Cemetery, the Brüll Mausoleum was also built

■ Alajos Stróbl: sculpture on Mihály Zichy's tomb

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