KOLOZSVÁRI, Márton and György
(active 1360-1400)



Sculptors, sons of Miklós Kolozsvári, a painter. Little is known of their lives. Their only statue which survived the centuries is the bronze equastrian statue of "St. George" (1373) in the castle in Prague. Later the statue was transformed into a fountain (its exact copy can be found in Epreskert, Budapest).

The first work of the Kolozsvári Brothers to appear in various documents was a group of three bronze figures, King Stephen, Prince Imre and King Ladislaus as commissioned by Demeter, the bishop of Nagyvárad. According to recent research, there is good reason to believe that it was the Kolozsvári brothers who fashioned the equestrian statue of St. Ladislaus (in front of the Dome in Nagyvárad) commissioned by János Zudar, bishop of Nagyvárad in 1390. The statue was destroyed after the Turks had occupied Nagyvárad in 1660.



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