Spring Exhibition in Mashiko, Japan - 15th April - 15th May

The theme in focus of the Spring Exhibition at Wagner Nándor Foundation was Corpus Hungaricum. The fate of this art piece is very special. Nándor Wagner created it during the early 50-ies as a self given task instead of committing suicide. After his emigration to Sweden in 1956, the model was saved by his friends and spent 50 years in the storage of Saint Steven Museum in Székesfehérvár. It was recovered and cast in bronze. Since 1999 the National Mourning Day of Hungary is remembered at Corpus Hungaricum. Now the copy of Corpus will return to his atelier soon.

Sapporo Maruyama Park

The snow is melting now. The Mother Earth was uncovered.

Reneszánsz Stonemason Ltd. Üröm, Hungary

The curving of of the statue named Mother Earth progressing well. Here you can see as István Darányi stone sculptor and Tibor Wehner art critic and historian are discussing the details.

A lost competition art piece has turned up

We paid a visit to Ms. Zsuzsa Zilahy who posed for Nándor Wagner as a child. She told us stories about the atelier and life in the Royal Garden Pavilion (Várbazár), where more than a dozen sculptors were creating. She and her family were presented several pieces by Nándor among them was the competition piece for the relief at the entrance of Eger Castle in 1952. The plaster piece was broken, but it is valuable so we have restored and preserved it.

Click for Photos of the original and the preserved piece

First sketch of Breast Feeding Mother

A small ceramic work came to our hands in quite good condition. Nándor Wagner was commissioned in 1956 to create a statue for maternity hospital. He made several versions and one of them and this has turned up unexpectedly. The theme itself was one his favourite during his life, he composed schematically, figurative, realistic in standing, sitting and even in globular position. The latter became his landmark piece the Mother Earth (Boshizo furusato and Földanya) as he gave different names to them.

Breast feeding mother

This nice little piece of ceramic was presented to Zsuzsa Zilahy, his child model those days. She was posing for several compositions.

Snowing in Mashiko

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