János Fadrusz
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2 September 1858 Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| Died | 26 October 1903 (aged 45) Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Hungary) |
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 Hungary
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János Fadrusz (2 September 1858, Pressburg - 26 October 1903, Budapest) was a Hungariansculptor. He was a celebrated artist of the age with many important public commissions.
Born in Pressburg, Hungary (Hungarian: Pozsony) (today Bratislava, Slovakia), Fadrusz came from a peasant family and went to school in Pressburg where he did four years of primary school and two years of secondary school before an apprenticeship as a locksmith. On completing the apprenticeship he won a gold medal for a portal design and his carved works were instantly met with recognition. He enrolled at the school of wood-carving in Uhrovec.
During military service in Prague between 1879 and 1883 he met Josef Václav Myslbek, a famous Czech sculptor and his influence played a role in his change of direction into china painting and sculpture. "Ahusversus' Head", a plaster cast, was met with praise and brought him patrons. As the winner of a scholarship, he worked under Viktor Tilgner, a neo-baroque sculptor, in Vienna from 1886 onwards, then became the pupil of Edmund Hellmer at the Vienna Academy. Fadrusz also fashioned a list of portraits (Cézar Scomparini in 1886, Károly Naszidler in 1889, and Mrs. Tivadar Ortvay in 1888).
His "Crucifix", which he sculpted in Vienna in 1892, made him famous throughout Hungary.
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