Fadrusz, János

Fadrusz, János

▪ Hungarian sculptor
Hungarian form  Fadrusz János 
born Sept. 2, 1858, Pozsony, Hung. [now Bratislava, Slvk.]
died Oct. 26, 1903, Budapest

      preeminent Hungarian sculptor at the end of the 19th century. He was renowned for his memorial statues.

      Fadrusz was the son of poor parents. He learned the trade of locksmithing but devoted his free time to drawing, sculpting, and carving. After completing an apprenticeship, he enrolled in the carving workshop in Zayugróc (now Uhrovce, Slvk.). After he finished his studies there (1875–79) and completed his military service, he returned to his hometown of Pozsony in 1882. He supported himself by making wood carvings and patterns. In 1886 he received a grant to travel to Vienna to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked under two sculptors, Viktor Tilgner and Edmund Heller.

      His work Krisztus a keresztfán (1891; “Christ on the Cross”) won him the award of the Vienna Academy, and Kunsthalle (1892) received the grand prize of the Hungarian Society of Fine Arts in Budapest. In 1894 Fadrusz was commissioned to design the statue of Matthias I in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Rom.). The huge equestrian statue, which stands in the city's main square, was installed in 1902. For this achievement he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Kolozsvár, and the work won the Grand Prix at the world's fair in Paris in 1900.

      Having achieved widespread acclaim for his works, Fadrusz received many commissions for memorial statues. Of these, the memorial to Miklós Wesselényi that was erected in 1902 in Zilah (now Zalǎu, Rom.) and Fadrusz's monumental marble equestrian Maria Theresa memorial in Pozsony (1896) were destroyed following the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia.

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