Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

Sculpture by Pál Kő on the grave of actor Imre Ráday

above botanist Vera Csapody is interred. No other Hungarian is likely to have ever drawn and painted more figures than Csapody.

The section of artists numbered 22/1 is only a narrow strip, but it is crowded with such prominent figures as painter Oszkár Glatz; actress Hilda Gobbi and actor László Márkus (each resting under a memorial statue by Barna Búza); actress Katalin Karády; actor György Kálmán; and the writer Pongrác Galsai. A statue by Imre Varga stands over the grave of actor Lajos Básti.

One part of Section 23 is a traditional cemetery, while the other contains urn cubicles only. The ashes of the music critic András Pernye were placed in one of these. Among the celebrities buried in Section 24 are painter Endre Bálint and the Transylvania-born sculptor Jenő Szervátiusz. His son Tibor carved the wooden grave post.

The next section, numbered 25, is known as the famous old artists’ section, even though it is not reserved exclusively for artists. At the corner is the grave of writer and poet Gábor Deuecseri, the Hungarian translator of Homer’s epics; a huge broken amphora (the work of Tamás Fekete) draws the visitor’s attention to this monument. Due to the lack of space, the list of names of those buried in this section can only be incomplete. First, here are some of the

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