Ferenc Szárnovszky
Ferenc Szárnovszky (born December 23, 1863 in Pest , Hungary , † April 29, 1903 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian sculptor and medalist .
Live and act
Ferenc Szárnovszky was the son of a tailor. From 1885 he studied first as a guest at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and from 1886 on a scholarship at the General Sculpture School under Edmund von Hellmer . In 1887 he went to Paris , was trained at the Académie Julian by Henri Chapu , among others , attended the École des Beaux-Arts and worked in the studios of Alexandre Falguière , Louis-Ernest Barrias and Denys Puech . In 1890 he worked for Joseph Boehm in London .
Szárnovszky initially worked primarily as a medalist and belonged to Ede Telcs and Fülöp Ö. Beck to the pioneers of the Hungarian art of medalists. One of his first works was a commemorative medal for the poet and revolutionary Sándor Petőfi , which was created in the late 1880s. In 1892 he won a prize from the Budapest Arts and Crafts Association with a portrait medal by Szent László . In the same year he designed the Koronázási jubileumi érem medal on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the coronation of Franz Joseph I as Hungarian Emperor. In 1896 he designed the gold medal Iparművészeti Múzeum nagy állami aranyérmét for the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts . He also designed other portrait medals of Gyula Benczúr (1895), Mihály von Munkácsy (bronze plaque, 1897), Jenő Hubay (1898), Miklós Ybl (1899) and József Katona (around 1900).
From the mid-1890s onwards, he increasingly turned to sculpture. Around 1894 he designed sculptures for the Hungarian kings Stephan IV , Béla III and Ladislaus III for the parliament building in Budapest . executed by István Tóth and József Haraszti until 1905. He began work on the statue of the poet János Garay , which was unveiled in Szekszárd in 1898 and is considered to be his main work. He was then commissioned to design a statue of Johann Pálffy , but his first designs were rejected. Later he was unable to complete his work because of a nervous problem. The work was done by Károly Senyei and the statue was erected in Budapest in 1905.
Ferenc Szárnovszky committed suicide in 1903 because of his worsening nervous disease . Parts of his work are in the Hungarian National Gallery .
Web links
- Gábor György Papp: Szárnovszky Ferenc. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 118 f. (Direct links on p. 118 , p. 119 ). ( Text version on biographien.ac.at)
- István Dömötör: Szárnovszky Ferenc on mke.hu (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Telcs, Ede in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon
- ↑ László Siklóssy: A modem magyar éremművészet és művelői (1817–1910) on eremkedvelok.hu with biographical information on Ferenc Szárnovszky
- ↑ Szent László érem on axioart.com
- ↑ Koronázási jubileumi érem ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on mng.hu
- ↑ Károly Lyka : A Szobrászat on oszk.hu, picture below
- ↑ Munkácsy Mihály portréja on axioart.com
- ↑ Hubay Jenő ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on mng.hu
- ↑ IV. István on kozterkep.hu
- ↑ III. Béla on kozterkep.hu
- ↑ III. (Gyermek) László on kozterkep.hu
- ↑ Garay János-szobor on kozterkep.hu
- ↑ Senyei Károly: Gróf Pálffy János szobra on beszelamarvany.lapunk.hu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szárnovszky, Ferenc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian sculptor and medalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pest , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1903 |
| Place of death | Budapest , Hungary |