Eduard "Ede" Telcs was a
Hungarian sculptor
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
, and
medallist; born at
Baja, Hungary
Baja () is a city with county rights in , southern Hungary. It is the second largest city in the county, after the county seat at Kecskemét, and is home to some 35,000 people. Baja is the seat of the Baja municipality.
The environs of Baja hav ...
on 12 May 1872; died 1948 in Budapest. At the age of twelve he went to
Budapest
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and studied decorative art, but he soon left that city for
Vienna
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, where he was educated for four years in the Allgemeine Bildhauerschule, winning the Füger gold medal with his "St. Boniface Striking Down the Banner of Wotan." He next entered Professor Zumbusch's school, where he studied for three years, gaining the school's first prize with his "Two Drinkers," which 1894 won a medal of the second class at the
World's Fair in Antwerp. Telcs attracted particular attention in 1900 by being awarded, for his monument in honor of Empress
Elizabeth of Austria, first prize among many competitors. In 1905 he was commissioned to work on a statue of the poet
Vörösmarty to be erected in Budapest, and another of
Kossuth in
Kecskemét
Kecskemét ( , sk, Kečkemét) is a city with county rights central part Hungary. It is the eighth-largest city in the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun.
Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's th ...
, having been awarded both these commissions as a result of competition.
In
World War II
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Budapest 1944 Telcs was ordered to wear the
Jewish badge (Judenstern).
Raoul Wallenberg
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helped to prevent his deportation into a
Nazi extermination camp
Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (german: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (), or killing centers (), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust. The v ...
.
On 19 September 2008 on the 60th anniversary of his death a memorial was held in Baja at the house where he was born. Wreaths laid by the mayor and the member of parliament for the region. A special exposition was also opened on the same day at the museum. Telcs family members from all over the world gathered for this occasion.
External links
Ede Telcs biography (Hungarian)*
References
1872 births
1948 deaths
People from Baja, Hungary
Hungarian Jews
Hungarian sculptors
20th-century sculptors
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