János Pásztor (1881–1945) was a renowned Hungarian
academic
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sculptor in the first decades of the 20th century.
Early life
Pásztor learned sculptural arts in the School of Arts and Crafts (''Iparművészeti Iskola'', today
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
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) in Budapest. He was a pupil of
Lajos Mátrai.
His first works were the side figures of the
Pál Vásárhelyi
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Monument in
Szeged
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. In 1903 he got a fellowship in
Paris
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. In 1905 Pásztor settled down in
Hódmezővásárhely
Hódmezővásárhely (; also known by other alternative names) is a city with county rights in southeast Hungary, on the Great Hungarian Plain, at the meeting point of the Békés-Csanádi Ridge and the clay grassland surrounding the river Tisz ...
but five years later he moved to Budapest.
He became a renowned artist with popular exhibitions in 1911, 1918, 1925 and 1930. In 1929 he won the Grand Prix of the World's Fair in
Barcelona
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. He was killed at the end of
World War II
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during the bombardment of Budapest.
Pásztor sculpted small genre statues, female nudes, portraits and funeral monuments. In the 1930s and 1940s he created several important public monuments in Budapest. His most important works-of-art are the
Ferenc Kazinczy
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Memorial in the
Castle District of Buda, and the
Neo-Classicist
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equestrian statue of
Francis II Rákóczi
Francis II Rákóczi ( hu, II. Rákóczi Ferenc, ; 27 March 1676 – 8 April 1735) was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–11 as the prince ( hu, fejedelem) of the Estates Confedera ...
erected in front of the
Hungarian Parliament Building
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on
Lajos Kossuth Square
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in 1937.
Gallery
File:Pásztor János The girl with jug 1908 in Hódmezővásárhely.jpg, The girl with jug on square Kosssuth in Hódmezővásárhely
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File:Szeged-szechenyiter1.jpg, The Blessing and Destroying Tisza
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fountain group in Szeged
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File:Kinizsi Pál Pásztor.JPG, Statue of Pál Kinizsi in Budapest
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File:Lotz Károly-sírja.jpg, Tomb of Károly Lotz
Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz (16 December 1833 – 13 October 1904) was a German- Hungarian painter.
Career
Karl Lotz was born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany, the 7th and youngest surviving child of Wilhelm Chris ...
(Kerepesi cemetery
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in Budapest)
File:FrancisIIRákócziStatue.jpg, Statue of Francis II Rákóczi
Francis II Rákóczi ( hu, II. Rákóczi Ferenc, ; 27 March 1676 – 8 April 1735) was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–11 as the prince ( hu, fejedelem) of the Estates Confedera ...
outside Hungarian Parliament Building
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References
Pásztor, János biography, English* Magyar művészeti kislexikon kezdetektől napjainkig. (Glossary of Hungarian art beginnings.) Ed. Körber, Ágnes. Budapest : Enciklopédia Kiadó, 2002. Pásztor, János see 329–330. p. ; Hungarian
1881 births
1945 deaths
People from Békés County
Hungarian sculptors
20th-century sculptors
Hungarian civilians killed in World War II
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