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

Funeral Art in the Second Half of the 20th Century

■ MiWőó Bonoi: the funeral monument of Jenő Heltai

the original was later destroyed. Another funeral sculpture of Borsos’s employing the device of transmuting a self-portrait was made for the tomb of János Nagy Balogh in i960 (K 34/2). Further, equally splendid works of Borsos's made for Kerepesi út Cemetery in the years of its closure include monuments to Gyula Krúdy (K 34/2), Jenő Heltai (K 34/1) and Frigyes Karinthy (K 41). Unveiled in 1963, the monument placed on Krúdy's tomb is a concave cameo of a ghostly rider evoking the writer’s misty fictional world. A similar representation of the idea of absence and the transition into nothingness can be observed on the tombstone of István Genthon unveiled in 1971 (F 6/7). A parallel can be drawn between that and the mourning figure unveiled in 1970 on Karinthy's tomb, which is also related to Borsos's earlier sculptural depictions of a wailer's figure.

Unveiled in 1967, the Heltai tomb features a stylised bird, another characteristic motif of Borsos's oeuvre. Among his many relevant works, the best known

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