Word: strobl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says De Strobl, "I like my monument. I have done many things in my life and many of them I dislike after a few months, but this one I keep coming back to see." And as war memorials go, De Strobl's monument was indeed complex, harmonious, and impressive. Even so, Hungarians who look forward to a "second liberation" can hardly wait to topple it into the Danube...
...Voroshilov picked up De Strobl in his limousine, took him to the top of rocky Gellert Hill, which overlooks the city, the Danube, and the broad Hungarian plain. Said he: "This is where we will put our monument." With the help of 300 workers, they...
...Members of the U.S. colony in Budapest have dubbed the statue "the Tobacco Auctioneer." Hungarians say she holds the victory palm aloft because the grim, 18-ft. figure of a Russian soldier that stands below her on the pedestal might steal it. But these cracks fail to bother De Strobl. "The figure upstairs," he explains, "is international. The figure downstairs is Russian. Many Russians lost their lives here, after...
...Strobl has designed some 30 monuments, modeled innumerable portrait busts, and won a commanding postion in the middle-European art world. A diplomatic fellow, who gets along with the Russians without antagonizing too much those who don't, he returned last year from a month's visit to England and immediately accepted an invitation to tour Russia. George Bernard Shaw, whom De Strobl once "busted," neatly ticketed the sculptor's somewhat bland art when he described the portrait of himself as being "what I should like to look like. Perhaps I shall some day, if I contemplate...
Model No. 50. De Strobl used no model for the woman in the Budapest monument ("She came directly from my stomach, as we say in Hungary"), but the Russian below her was modeled from a Red Army trooper-the 50th model that Voroshilov had sent around for approval...