Alajos Stróbl
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Artist
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. His work can be best characterized with sensitive realistic modelling and he became one of the most renowned sculptors of memorials in Hungary at the turn of the 20th century.
Strobl was a pupil of K. Zumbusch between 1876 and 1880. He was a young sculptor when his statue of Perseus
Perseus
Perseus ,Perseos and Perseas are not used in English. the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty of Danaans there, was the first of the mythic heroes of Greek mythology whose exploits in defeating various archaic monsters provided the founding myths of the Twelve Olympians...
(1882) gained him widespread attention in Hungary.
He created two statues for the façade and two sitting figures ("Erkel" and "Liszt") for the entrance of the Opera. From then on, he became the most popular sculptor in Hungary of memorial
Memorial
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s. He sculpted the figure of János Arany
János Arany
János Arany , was a Hungarian journalist, writer, poet, and translator. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 40 ballads which have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy, to mention his most famous works.-Biography:He was born in...
in the grounds of the Hungarian National Museum
Hungarian National Museum
- History:The Hungarian National Museum is said to have been founded in 1802 when Count Ferenc Széchényi set up the National Széchényi Library. This would then be followed a year later by the donating of a mineral collection by Széchényi’s wife. This led to the creation of the Hungarian National...
in 1893 and the Matthias Fountain
Matthias Fountain
Matthias Fountain is a monumental fountain group in the western forecourt of Buda Castle, Budapest. Alajos Stróbl’s Neo-Baroque work is one of the most frequently photographed objects in the Hungarian capital. It is sometimes called the ’Trevi Fountain of Budapest’.-Description:The group depicts a...
in Buda Castle
Buda Castle
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in 1904. Stróbl also made two funeral statues for the Hungarian branch of the Habsburg family which are in the Palatinal Crypt
Palatinal Crypt
The Palatinal Crypt in Buda Castle, Budapest is the burial place of the Hungarian branch of the Habsburg dynasty, founded by Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary...
of Buda Castle.
In 1906 he sculpted the equestrian statue of St. Stephen in the Fischer Bastion. A busy year, he also completed The Semmelweis Memorial in 1906 which is now featured at the Rókus Hospital in Hungary.
In collaboration with Kálmán Gerster, Stróbl produced statues for the Kossuth
Kossuth
-Hungary:* Kossuth tér, or Lajos Kossuth Square, Budapest* Kossuth Lajos tér , a station on the M2 line of the Budapest Metro-United States:* Kossuth County, Iowa* Kossuth, Mississippi, a village...
Mausoleum
Mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...
in 1907 and the Elizabeth Memorial. The statue of János Arany which was erected by Stobl in 1910 can be now be seen in Nagykörös
Nagykorös
Nagykőrös is a town in Pest county, Hungary.Arany János taught there from about 1851, and a local museum is named for him.- External links :*...
. The works of the Szécheny Memorial completed in 1914 lie in the city of Szeged
Szeged
' is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county town of Csongrád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary....
. He also created a World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
memorial apotheosis
Apotheosis
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of Károly Lotz
Károly Lotz
Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz 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 Christian Lotz and Antonia Höfflick ...
which is displayed in Stansted
Stansted
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, England
England
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. His works of the 1920s such as the statue of Jókai (1921), the composition Reading Girls (1921), the Sándor Károlyi Memorial and the busts of József Eötvös and János Arany
János Arany
János Arany , was a Hungarian journalist, writer, poet, and translator. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 40 ballads which have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy, to mention his most famous works.-Biography:He was born in...
now stand in respectable public places of Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
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Alajos Stróbl also created a great number of impressionist portraits (Self Portrait at Young Age, 1878, Young Woman, 1916-1918, and Szinyei Merse in 1919 and many others. Our Mother, one his major works, won him the Grand Prix Award at the World Exhibition in Paris
Paris
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For a great deal of his career, Stobl was a teacher of the Hungarian Art School, and his influence was highly significant for Hungarian art during this period.