Károly Senyei
Károly Senyei (also Károly Schmidt or Karl Schmidt ; born January 15, 1854 in Pest , Kingdom of Hungary , † February 7, 1919 in Budapest , Hungary ) was a Hungarian sculptor .
Live and act
Károly Senyei was the son of a teacher. He studied in Budapest, Vienna and from 1883 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1886 he returned to Budapest.
Senyei mainly created building sculptures and worked with well-known architects such as Alajos Hauszmann and Albert Schickedanz . His most famous works include the Triga (1896) in front of the Budapest Ethnographic Museum and the statues of Kings Stephan I (Szent István, 1911) and Andrew II (II. Endres, 1912), which he designed for the Millennium Monument in Budapest.
He made a marble statue of St. Elisabeth (1890s) for the St. Stephen's Basilica and four Carrara marble busts of King Charles III for the Habsburg Hall in the north wing of the castle palace . , Maria Theresa , Franz Joseph I and Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary . In front of the Budapest History Museum is his double sculpture Háború és Béke (War and Peace). For the palatine crypt in the castle palace, he designed a statue for the sarcophagus of the great-granddaughter Gizella (1897–1901) of Archduke Joseph of Austria .
He designed fountains for Vigadó Square (two fishing children, 1896) and for the castle palace ( Halaszo fiu fountain , three children with a fish, 1912).
Senyei completed a statue of Johann Pálffy , which was started by Ferenc Szárnovszky and which was not completed due to a nervous problem. The work was set up in Budapest in 1905.
Károly Senyei is an important Hungarian representative of late historicism , with influences from neo-baroque and naturalism . Some of his works are in the Hungarian National Gallery , the History Museum and the Kiscelli Museum in Budapest.
Web links
- Enikő Buzási : Senyei (Schmidt) Károly. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 181 f. (Direct links on p. 181 , p. 182 ). ( Text version on biographien.ac.at)
- Senyei, Károly on the website of Galerie Koller (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tríga-szoborkompozíció on kozterkep.hu
- ↑ Szent István on kozterkep.hu
- ^ II. András (Endre) on kozterkep.hu
- ↑ The Altar of the Nation: The Millenium Monument in Budapest ( Memento of the original from May 18, 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 geroandras.hu
- ↑ Saint Elizabeth on hung-art.hu
- ↑ Interiors of Buda Castle - Northern Wing on liquisearch.com
- ↑ Háború és béke on jozsag.iso200.hu
- ↑ Palatinal Crypt - Vaults on liquisearch.com
- ↑ Vigadó-plein on aviewoncities.com
- ^ László Prohászka: The Danube promenade. Budapest 1998 ( online )
- ↑ Halaszo fiu fountain on flickr.com
- ^ In: Adrian Phillips, Jo Scotchmer, Monika Phillips: Budapest. Bradt Travel Guides, 2012, p. 184 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ Senyei Károly: Gróf Pálffy János szobra on beszelamarvany.lapunk.hu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Senyei, Károly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Károly; Schmidt, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pest , Kingdom of Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1919 |
| Place of death | Budapest , Hungary |