HUBER, József
(1777, Pozsony - 1832, Pest)



Sculptor. First he was instructed the art of sculpture in his father's, Ferenc Huber's, sculpture workshop and later he studied under the guidance of sculptor F. Reindl in Vienna till 1794. In 1795 he roamed in Europe for a while, but in 1796 he returned to Vienna, where he worked in different workshops. In 1800 he enrolled in the academy. He travelled to Paris on several occasions and created Roman and Corinthian friezes on the building of the Louvre. In 1818 he settled in Pest and established a workshop of his own there. Initially, he made sculptures for provincial churches (Csanád, Esztergom, etc.) and, later, decorative pieces on Pest tenement houses (Wurm-court, etc.) and memorial tombs that reflected contemporary tastes (Meiszner Pelagia, etc.).


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