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

Kerepesi út Cemetery at the Turn of the 20th Century

allegory, which earned the sculpture the prestigious Rökk Prize. Thematically, the Kozma Monument is closely related to the Csemegi Tomb, made by Donáth at about the same time. The resemblance is enhanced by the fact that the tombs of the two learned lawyers stand facing one another. Other works from this period of Kallós's include the sculpture representing a navvy on Andor Vad- nay’s tomb set up in 1905 (K 17/2) and Miklós Bartha’s tomb with the figure of the decedent lying in state; the architecture here was designed by Lajos Tátray (K 28). Kallós’s later work shows signs of exhaustion of the sculptor's funereal art. These signs are particularly conspicuous on Kallós's sculpture made for the tomb of Baron Dezső Bánffy and unveiled in 1914 (K 29/2), a work quite distant from the Kozma sepulchre in artistic quality. Of the sculptor's late work, the funeral monuments of Miksa Falk (K 29/3) and of Zsolt Beöthy (K 36/2) represent the highest aesthetic standards as do the sepulchres of Leó Veigelsberg and Mór Gelléri in the Kozma utca Jewish Cemetery.

■ Géza Maróti and Ede Tela:

Pál Horn'd funeral monument

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