Ede Telcs

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Ede Telcs (1900)
Ede Telcs (1910)
Kossuth monument in Kecskemét (1906)

Eduard "Ede" Telcs (also Eduard "Ede" Teltsch ; born May 12, 1872 in Baja , Hungary , † July 18, 1948 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian sculptor and medalist .

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Eduard Telcs attended the grammar school in Maria Theresiopel and from 1887 the trade drawing school in Budapest. From 1888 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, first at the General Sculpture School under Edmund von Hellmer until 1892, and received the Füger Prize in 1892 . He then studied until 1895 at the special school for sculpture with Caspar von Zumbusch ; In 1893 he exhibited his first works in the Kunsthalle Budapest . In 1895 he worked for György Zala and from 1896 in his own studio in Budapest. In 1896 he exhibited at the Budapest Millennium Exhibition and in 1906 portraits and putti at the World Exhibition in Milan . Other works from this period include the sculpture by Thomas Gresham for the facade of the Gresham Palace in Budapest, the monument to Lajos Kossuth in Kecskemét (1906), a bust of the politician Dezső Szilágyi (1907), the monument to Mihály Vörösmarty on the Vörösmarty Square (together with Eduard Kallós , 1908) and the statue of Ladislaus I (1911) as well as grave sculptures for Miklós Barabás (1905) and Mihály von Munkácsy (1911).

Ede Telcs made several study trips to Italy, France, Germany and England, from 1920 to 1924 he lived in Utrecht in the Netherlands . After his return he created, among other things, the group Gyermekfigurák ( children's figures ) for the Gellért therapeutic baths (1927) and the monument to Ignác Alpár in front of the historical ensemble in the city ​​park (1931).

The medalist belonged to Ede Telcs with Ferenc Szárnovszky and Fülöp Ö. Beck to the pioneers of the Hungarian art of medalists. He designed coins , medals and plaques with portraits of the politicians Ferenc Deák (1903, for his 100th birthday) and Gyula Andrássy the Elder (1906), the painter Ferenc Szoldatits (1908), the musician David Popper (1908) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1924) as well as medals such as Anyaság ( maternity ) (1906) and Ülő faun ( seated faun ) (1922). His work was shown in exhibitions in Antwerp (1893), Dresden (1901), the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis (1904), Brussels (1922), Monza (1925), Barcelona (1930), Paris (1937) and Venice (1938).

The sculptors and medalists Gyula Murányi (1881–1920), Lajos Berán (1882–1943), József Reményi (1887–1977) and Paul Vincze (1907–1994) worked in Ede Telcs' studio . Telcs was a member of the Hungarian Society for Applied Arts.

Web links

Commons : Ede Telcs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teltsch Ede on elib.hu
  2. ^ Neal Bedford: Budapest. Edited by H.-J. Cutter. MairDumont, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-8297-3278-9 , p. 89 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. ↑ Image of the sculpture by Thomas Gresham on muemlekem.hu
  4. ↑ Vörösmarty-Platz on aviewoncities.com
  5. ↑ Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary - Millennium Memorial on vanderkrogt.net
  6. ↑ Barabás Miklós síremléke on kozterkep.hu
  7. ↑ Munkácsy Mihály Síremléke on mke.hu
  8. ↑ Gyermekfigurák on kozterkep.hu
  9. ↑ Alpár Ignác szobor on vanderkrogt.net
  10. ↑ Hazai Krónika on mke.hu
  11. ↑ Gróf Andrássy Gyula szoboremlékének lepelhullása alkalmából 1906 (plakett) ( Memento of 25 April 2016 Internet Archive ) on budapestantikvarium.hu
  12. ↑ 1908 Telcs Ede: Szoldatits Ferenc on eremkedvelok.hu
  13. ↑ 1908 Popper Dávid on eremkedvelok.hu
  14. ↑ Anyaság on hung-art.hu
  15. ↑ Ülő faun | Eduard Telcs on europeana.eu
  16. ↑ History of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition R – Z ( April 25, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Telcs, Ede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Telcs, Eduard (real name); Telcs, Édouard; Teltsch, Eduard; Telsch, Ede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Baja , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1948
Place of death Budapest