03 — ARTWORK
Composer Ferenc Erkel
- MEDIUM
- Limestone, above life-size
- TYPE
- Portrait
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 490 × 660 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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Miklós Ybl (1814-1891), architect of the Opera House in Budapest, commissioned the young sculptor Alajos Stróbl in 1881 for executing the sitting portraits of composers Franz Liszt and Ferenc Erkel. The two statues were placed to the niches on both sides of the main entrance in 1884, the year of the inauguration of the new Opera.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Composer Ferenc Erkel by STRÓBL, Alajos},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/strbl-alajos-r7bfe57ff7bbf84/composer-ferenc-erkel-r0e142f711cf50c},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
