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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
cordiat recognition from
good judges in Paris. Von
Paal's paintings were most
of them soid by auction
soon after he died, and
the greater number were
sent to Engiand, whence
they have been returned
for the present exhibition,
organized by Count Juiius
Andrassy, Herr Prases,
and Herr Ludwig Ernst,
Director of the Art Society
of Nemzeti Szalon, aii of
whom have done their utmost, with the cordiai
co-operation of the English owners of the pictures,
to make the show a thoroughiy representative one.

On the 14th October the grand Equestrian Statue
of the ceiebrated Hungarian monarch Matthias I.
was unveiied at Kaiozovar in the presence of the
Royal famiiy and the chief representative men of
the capitai, amid much popuiar enthusiasm. The
monument is the work of the weil-known sculptor
Johann Fadruzy, one of the rnost prominent artists
of Hungary, who aiso designed the Maria Theresa
Monument at Pozsong, as weH as many ideal works
of which his feHow countrymen are justiy proud.
Fadruzy, who began Hfe as a locksmith's apprentice,
has won the high position he now hoids in the art
world bv dint of hard work and perseverance. In
this iast composition, a worthy memorial of the
great monarch of the Renaissance in Hungary, he
has probably reached his highest point of excellence,

and he may be said to be now at the very
zenith of his art career. The model in piaster
of Paris of the bronze statue, which is the chief
feature of the monument, was accorded the
hrst goid medai at the exhibition heid in the
French Capitai.

The Hungarian Museum of Industriai Art, in
which the works of the successfui artists in the
South Rensington Competition were shown in
1898, and a coiiection of exampies of the art of
Waiter Crane in 1900, was this year given up to
an Exhibition of British Applied Art. Its success
was due to the co-operation of Messrs. H. Thomson
Lyon, Walt^r Crane, George Donaldson, Isidore
Spielmann, Lewis F. Day, F. H. Newbery, James
Paton, and C. Harrison Townsend, with Jeno
Radisits, Director of the Hungarian Museum of
Industrial Art, and Herr Lipesez of Budapest.
The exhibition was a thorough success in every


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