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

Funeral Art in the First Half of the 20th Century

each for the deceased of the Borosnyay and the Radnai families. Károly Borosnyay's grave is marked with a sculpture entitled Woman in Thought, unveiled in 1935 (F 33/1). The first, bronze, version of the statue made in a spirit closer to Medgyessy’s original conception, for the tomb of Mrs. Béla Radnai (F 1) was unveiled over Medgyessy’s own grave in 1959 (K 34/2). His statue entitled Girl Spinning a yarn was erected on the Török family’s sepulchre (F 6/13), and it was in Farkasrét Cemetery, too, that the Medvecz- ky’s and Szocs’s funeral monuments once stood. More female figures in mourning were put on the tombs of Mrs. Móricz née Janka Holies (K 34) and Mrs. Lyka née Ida Minich (K 34/2). Being a robust male figure, the funeral monument of Ferenc Borvendég, unveiled in 1937 (K 34), differs from the former. Unveiled in 1952, the tombstone of Zsigmond Móricz is one of the best funeral works of Medgyessy; here the frieze around the sculpted portrait represents the best-known characters of the writer's novels (K 34). Medgyessy

■ Ferenc Medgyessy: the tomb

of Károly Borosnyay

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