Andor Mészáros

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Andor Mészáros (born September 1, 1900 in Budapest , Hungary , † May 1, 1972 in South Melbourne , City of Port Phillip , Australia ) was a Hungarian-Australian architect , sculptor and medalist .

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Andor Mészáros was the son of the lawyer Alexander Mészáros and his wife, the sculptor Bertha geb. Grünsberg. He attended grammar school in Budapest and served in the Hungarian cavalry in 1918, but was not deployed at the end of the First World War . From 1919 to 1924 he studied mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology , from 1924 to 1925 sculpture at the Académie Julian in Paris - with Henri Bouchard , Paul Landowski and in the studio of József Csáky - and then architecture at the Technical University of Budapest until 1927 . After he trained for two years with the architects Móric Pogány as a draftsman and József Vágó as a civil engineer , he received approval from the Hungarian Chamber of Architects (Magyar Építész Kamara) and began to work as an architect. He worked closely with the sculptor and medalist Eduard "Ede" Telcs , for whose fountain he developed several architectural designs. In 1932 he opened his own office.

Christ Accepts His Cross , All Saints Anglican Church in Brisbane
A cast copy of the Shakespeare statue in Budapest

Andor Mészáros married Erzsébet Back (also Elizabeth Bakk) in Budapest on December 1, 1932, and their first son Daniel was born in 1935. In 1939 he emigrated to Australia because of the impending war and arrived in Melbourne on June 21, 1939 . He was considered an enemy alien and worked for a year in the architectural firms of JVT Ward and Marsh & Michaelson. In 1940 his wife and her son followed him to Melbourne. Andor Mészáros was able to become artistically active with the support of friends such as the zoologist Wilfred Eade Agar and the doctor Herbert Schlink . His first works include the three stone figures Maternity (1944), The Surgeon (1945) and King George V (1946), which he made for the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney . In 1945 he illustrated the book I Hear the Tramp of Millions by Frederick Oswald Barnett. In 1949 he worked for a few months in England on the altarpiece for St. Anselm's Chapel in Canterbury Cathedral and completed the medallions of the Canterbury Series with fourteen Stations of the Cross .

From the 1950s he made several larger commissioned works in Australia, including The Resurrection in 1954 , a sandstone figure as an altarpiece for the chapel of the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore School), a triumphal cross for St Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide in 1955, and a cross in 1960 Shakespeare statue for the city of Ballarat , in 1962 the bronze figure of Christ Accepts His Cross for the All Saints Anglican Church in Brisbane and in 1964 a group of figures for the Supreme Court in Darwin , which led to some controversy.

Between his sculpting assignments, he designed a total of over 1,000 medals, including a medal of honor for the Victorian Artists Society in 1947, the 1956 Olympic Games, the 1967 Pattern Swan Dollar ("Goose Dollar") and 1968 The Vietnam Medal for Australian and New Zealand soldiers Vietnam War . He designed the ANZAAS Medal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, awarded for the first time in 1965 . He produced portrait medals from David Rivett , chemist and science manager (around 1966), from Howard Florey , pathologist (1963) and from Robert Menzies , politician (1969), among others . In 1951 he received the main prize at the International Medallion Exhibition in Madrid and in 1964 a purchase prize at the International Medallion Competition in Arezzo , Italy. He was a member of the International Federation of Medallists and the Amici Della Medaglia in Italy.

Andor Mészáros was president of the Victorian Sculptors' Society from 1954 to 1955 and 1962 to 1963, and from 1967 to 1969 the first president of the resulting Association of Sculptors of Victoria. It awards an Andor Meszaros Prize every two years .

From 1970 he worked with his younger son Michael Meszaros (* 1945). His older son Daniel worked as an architect, his daughter Anna Meszaros (* 1972) is a sculptor.

Andor Mészáros died on May 1, 1972 in South Melbourne and was cremated. A portrait of Andor Mészáros painted by L. Scott Pendlebury in 1961 is in the family's possession.

literature

Web links

Commons : Andor Mészáros  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frederick Oswald Barnett: I Hear the Tramp of Millions. Rawson, Melbourne 1945, OCLC 13344959 .
  2. ^ András Horn : Shakespeare. Essays from Hungary. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3809-9 , cover and p. 4 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. ↑ Christ Accepts His Cross on ilovebrisbane.blogspot.de
  4. ↑ The Scales Of Justice on flickr.com
  5. ↑ Darwin Protest Over Court House Statue. In: The Age from Melbourne. 5th June 1964.
  6. ^ Sculptor and Medalist. A Remarkable Craftsman. In: The Age from Melbourne. May 27, 1950.
  7. ^ Olympic Games Participants' Medal 1956 on ngv.vic.gov.au
  8. ↑ 1967 ACR Pattern Swan Dollar (Goose Dollar) by Andor Meszaros on australian-coins.com
  9. ↑ New Zealand Campaign Medals - The Vietnam Medal on medals.nzdf.mil.nz.
  10. ^ Medal - Vietnam Medal, Specimen, Australia, 1964 at collections.museumvictoria.com.au
  11. ↑ ANZAAS Medal on csiropedia.csiro.au
  12. ↑ Sir David (Albert Cherbury) Rivett KCMG FRS at portrait.gov.au
  13. ^ Plaque of Sir Howard Florey at catalogue.nla.gov.au
  14. ↑ Sir Howard Florey OM KBE FRS FAA on portrait.gov.au
  15. ↑ Annual Report of the Menzies Foundation, p. 4 (PDF; 144 kB)
  16. ↑ Sir Robert Menzies at portrait.gov.au
  17. ↑ see Australian Historical Medals on cdn.noble.com.au
  18. ^ History on the Association of Sculptors of Victoria website
  19. ↑ The Andor Meszaros Prize on sculperenewsletter.blogspot.de
  20. ↑ Movers and shapers on theage.com.au
  21. ↑ Ros Winspear: Creation and Gift. Donation of Anna Meszaros sculpture ( Memento from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: O & G. Magazine. Vol. 10, No. 2, 2008, p. 77 (PDF; 7.3 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Mészáros, Andor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Australian architect, sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1972
Place of death South Melbourne , City of Port Phillip , Australia