HUSZÁR, Adolf
(1843, Szentjakabfalva - 1885, Budapest)



Sculptor. Huszár, an iron-monger by trade, learnt at the Vienna Academy. He settled down in Pest in 1871 and became the most popular sculptor of the age after the Compromise of 1867. When plans for the Eötvös statues were invited in 1873, it was his plan which was accepted. After the death of Miklós Izsó, Huszár was commissioned to finish the statues of Dugonics (Szeged) and Petőfi (Budapest). He was commissioned to fashion the statue of Deák for Budapest and that of "Liberty" for Arad, the latter one being completed by György Zala.

He modelled portraits ("Barabás", "Kossuth", "Pulszky", and "Izsó", etc.) and nudes in academic style ("Venus and Amor" in the vestibule of Gellért Bath). He was a teacher at the Department of Sculpture at the School of Decorative Art.



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