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György Vastagh (18 September 1868, Kolozsvár - 3 June 1946, Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor. His works are in traditional Romantic and Classical styles. Most of them are monuments or memorials, although he is also known for sculptures of animals.
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György Vastagh (18 September 1868, Kolozsvár - 3 June 1946, Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor. His works are in traditional Romantic and Classical styles. Most of them are monuments or memorials, although he is also known for sculptures of animals.
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Life and work His father, also named György Vastagh, was a painter. His brother, Géza, became a painter as well; specializing in animals. His first teacher was György Zala. From 1889 to 1891, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, with drawing classes from Gabriel von Hackl and lessons in modeling from Syrius Eberle. His first publicly erected work was the National Monument in Pápa (1889). A year later, he entered a competition, sponsored by the city of Kolozsvár, to create a monument for Matthias Corvinus on the 400th anniversary of his death, but the commission was awarded to János Fadrusz. A study trip to Paris followed in 1893, where he made the acquaintance of Emmanuel Frémiet and Alexandre Falguière. In 1898, he paid a visit to Tunisia, joining Géza, who was there on a scholarship, sketching and painting lions. For the Exposition Universelle (1900), he was commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture to create sculptures of Hungary's finest breeding animals. They were awarded a gold medal, and are now in the collection of the London Natural History Museum. That same year, he married Olga Benczúr, daughter of the painter Gyula Benczúr. They had three children. Their daughter,…
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Sources Török Zsófia: "Ifjabb Vastagh György". In: Magyar Agrártörténeti életrajzok (vol.3), Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, 1989 ISBN 978-963-01-7833-4 Csap Erzsébet: ifj. Vastagh György emlékkiállítás (memorial exhibition), Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, 1968 (Online) Gecse Lászlóné: "ifj. Vastagh György magyar szürke szarvasmarha szobrai a Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeumban" (Sculptures of cattle at the Hungarian Agricultural Museum). In: Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei, 1984-1985, pp. 364-380 (Online) Csiffáry Gabriella (Ed.), Születtem...Magyar képzőművészek önéletrajzai (I Was Born...Curriculum Vitae of Hungarian Artists), Palatinus Kiadó, 2002 ISBN 963-9380-37-7 Barla-Szabó László: A Vastagh művészcsalád (exhibition catalogue), Ernst Museum, 2004 ISBN 963-703-205-3