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

Funeral Art in the Second Half of the 20th Century

Sergio Failoni (K 24/1) and Márk Vedres (K 34/1); of those made by István Martsa it is the sculpture over his own grave (F 25) as well as the Ignotus Monument that stand out on account of their perfect proportions (K 24/1).

Traditional themes have come to be coupled with innovative forms on a growing number of new sepulchral monuments. That is especially so in Farkasrét Cemetery, which has emerged as a major open-air gallery of Hungary's 20th century sculpture. The greatest possible variety of figurái as well as non- figurative styles is used here; the latter might even be suggestive of the mid- nineteenth-century heyday of architectural and unique sculptural monuments in the cemetery. Some sculptors are represented both by abstract and figurái works of an equally high artistic standard. Such an artist is Gyula Gulyás with his thought- provoking monument over the grave of Tibor Vilt (F 25) and his puritanical headstone on Péter Hajnóczy’s tomb on the other (F 36/2) from

■ litván Mama: the funeral monument of Ignotui

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