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

Funeral Art in the First Half of the 20th Century

■ Vilma Aba-Noväk'i tuneral monument made to hid own plants

are the reliefs made for the tombs of Gyula Pályi (F 6/1) and Sándor Pályi (F 2). The finest funeral work of Sándor Boldogfai Farkas's, the Vajtafy Monument, has been destroyed, but still extant are the artist's sculptures made for the tombs of Béla S. Nagy (K 34), Béla Molnár (K 34), and János Kabay (F newi3). Lajos Ungvári sculpted the funeral monuments of Lujza Szabó (K 48/1) and István Kerner; the latter, despite being a full-size statue, has disappeared from the tomb. Deserving mention are a few works by Géza Hiesz, Ernő Jálics, Dezső Győri, and György Marjai and two murals: the Christ mosaic made for the painter Vilmos Aba-Novák by Jenő József Perez to plans by the decedent himself (F 40), and the Kovách Monument by Eszter Mattioni (K 11) made with the method known as the ornamental-stone technique.

Loosely associated with the trend described above are the oeuvres of two major masters of modern Hungarian sculpture, Jenő Kerényi and Tibor Vilt. Of Kerényi's works, the Bleszkányi sepulchre (F 5) or Sándor Benedek's funeral monument unveiled in 1937 (F 7/2) indicate the extent to which the forms

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