Studio: international art (27.1903)

Studio- Talk

the modern spirit in art,
failed to appreciate them,
and they are little known
in Hungary, although a
short time before the death
of their author they won
cordial recognition from
good judges in Paris. Von
Paal's paintings were most
of them sold by auction
soon after he died, and
the greater number were
sent to England, whence
they have been returned
for the present exhibition,
organized by Count Julius
Andrassy, Herr Prases,
and Herr Ludwig Ernst,
Director of the Art Society
of Nemzeti Szalon, all of

whom have done their utmost, with the cordial and he may be said to be now at the very
co-operation of the English owners of the pictures, zenith of his art career. The model in plaster
to make the show a thoroughly representative one. of Paris of the bronze statue, which is the chief

FROM THE PEN DRAWING BY O. FRIEDRICH

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-— feature of the monument, was accorded the

On the 14th October the grand Equestrian Statue first gold medal at the exhibition held in the

of the celebrated Hungarian monarch Matthias I. French Capital,
was unveiled at Kalozovar in the presence of the

Royal family and the chief representative men of The Hungarian Museum of Industrial Art, in

the capital, amid much popular enthusiasm. The which the works of the successful artists in the

monument is the work of the well-known sculptor South Kensington Competition were shown in

Johann Fadruzy, one of the most prominent artists 1898, and a collection of examples of the art of

of Hungary, who also designed the Maria Theresa Walter Crane in 1900, was this year given up to

Monument at Pozsong, as well as many ideal works an Exhibition of British Applied Art. Its success

of which his fellow countrymen are justly proud, was due to the co-operation of Messrs. H. Thomson

Fadruzy, who began life as a locksmith's apprentice, Lyon, Walter Crane, George Donaldson, Isidore

has won the high position he now holds in the art Spielmann, Lewis F. Day, F. H. Newbery, James

world by dint of hard work and perseverance. In Paton, and C. Harrison Townsend, with Jeno

this last composition, a worthy memorial of the Radisits, Director of the Hungarian Museum of

great monarch of the Renaissance in Hungary, he Industrial Art, and Herr Lipesez of Budapest,

has probably reached his highest point of excellence, The exhibition was a thorough success in every

" SIEBEN-MEILENSTIEFEI. " BY FRIEDRICH KONIG

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