Buza Péter: Spring and Fountains - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

The defaced statue “Justice for Hungary” in Szabó Ervin tér

Szentgyörgyi in the garden of the Museum has been demolished.

Meanwhile, in the early 1910s, fountains with ideologically inspired symbolic figures also began to appear in public spaces, signalling the arrival of a new trend for artists and the public alike.

The first ornamental fountain bearing this new hallmark, one called Béke [Peace] or Pálos [Pauline] Fountain, no longer stands in its original place in Molnár Ferenc tér in Józsefváros, but has been relocated to the courtyard of the Theology Academy in the inner city. This work by Miklós Ligeti was unveiled in 1916. Its column bears a copy of the legendary Czestochova Mary Icon, and by the column, side by side, there are two Pauline monks on their knees praying. (One was modelled on Bishop Nándor Rótt.) This First World War monument was rebaptized in this spirit, en route as it were, as it had been meant to be the memorial fountain of the only religious order founded in Hungary. Those consecrating it had called it the Fountain of Peace because they hoped that the

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