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{{Infobox person
|name        = Sándor Farkas de Boldogfa
|image       = Sándor Boldogfai Farkas grave, relief, 2020 Zalaegerszeg.jpg
|caption     =
|birth_date  = 29 July 1907
|birth_place = [[Turčišće]]
|death_date  = {{death-date and age|12 November 1970|29 July 1907}}
|death_place = [[Budapest]]
|other_names = Boldogfai Farkas Sándor
|known_for   = Public sculptures
|occupation  = Sculpture
|nationality = Hungarian
}}
'''Sándor Farkas de Boldogfa''' (29 July 1907 – 12 November 1970) was a [[List of Hungarian sculptors|Hungarian sculptor]], [[medalist]].
==Biography==
[[File:A boldogfai Farkas család címere.jpg|thumb|right|160px|[[Coat of arms]] of the [[Hungarian nobility|Hungarian noble family]] '''[[Farkas de Boldogfa]]''']]
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[[File:Győr Apor Vilmos sírja.jpg|thumb|right|190px|[[Vilmos Apor]] tomb (1948, [[Cathedral Basilica of Győr]])]]
[[File:Virgin Mary statue and fountain by Sándor Farkas Boldogfai. 1.9-meter high, bronze statue in 1939. - Budapest District II. Pasaréti Square.JPG|thumb|right|190px|Fountain of the Holy Mary (1939, Budapest, Pasaréti square)]]
[[File:Socialist realism, bull leading relief in Keszthely, 2016 Hungary.jpg|thumb|right|190px|Bull leading (1956, Keszthely, Tapolcai street 45.)]]
Sándor Farkas de Boldogfa (in Hungarian: ''Boldogfai Farkas Sándor'') was born in [[Turčišće]] in 1907. He hailed from the ancient Roman Catholic [[Hungarian nobility|Hungarian noble]] family [[Farkas de Boldogfa]] from the [[Zala county]]. His father was Lajos Farkas de Boldogfa (1878–1930), administrator of the lands of [[Turčišće]] that belonged to Count Jenő Festetics. His mother was Eugenia Margitai (1882–1908).<ref name="margitai">{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11811-49308-18?cc=1542666&wc=M6WV-T6D:101520401,101712101|title=familysearch.org Boldogfai Farkas Lajosné Margitai Zsenka's Obituary}}</ref> His paternal grandparents were [[Ferenc Farkas (Zala county auditor)|Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa]] (1838–1908), landowner, Zala county auditor and monetary [[comptroller]] of the county, and the noble lady Zsófia Marton de Nemesnép (1842–1900).<ref name="martonzsófia">{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DYKQ-1TT?i=219&wc=M6WV-PWG%3A101520401%2C101621301%3Fcc%3D1542666&cc=1542666|title=familysearch.org Farkas Ferencné nemesnépi Marton Zsófia's obitluary}}</ref> Sándor Boldogfai Farkas had several paternal uncles: [[Order of Vitéz|vitéz]] [[Sándor Farkas de Boldogfa]] (1880– 1946), [[colonel]] of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]], captain of the [[Order of Vitéz]] of the [[Zala County (former)|county of Zala]], knight of the [[Order of the Iron Crown (Austria)|Order of the Iron Crown]], and also dr. [[István Farkas de Boldogfa]] (1875–1921), [[jurist]] of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]], supreme chief magistrate of district of [[Sümeg]] (''főszolgabíró'') in the [[Zala County (former)|county of Zala]]. Sándor Boldogfai Farkas' half sister Mária Farkas de Boldogfa married the Hungarian sculptor [[József Ispánki]].
Sándor studied goldsmithing at the School of Applied Arts between 1921 and 1926, then he continued his studies at the College of Fine Arts between 1927 and 1933. His masters were István Csajka and [[Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://artportal.hu/lexikon/muveszek/boldogfai_farkas_sandor# |title=Archivált másolat |accessdate=14 January 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227070151/http://artportal.hu/lexikon/muveszek/boldogfai_farkas_sandor# |archivedate=27 February 2013 }}</ref> In 1926 he was awarded with the Ferenczy István Prize, and in the same year he received the Metropolitan Prize and the Rothermere Prize. Between 1931 and 1932 he was teaching assistant to Zsimond Kisfaludi Strobl. Between 1932 and 1933 he studied at the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma]] with an Italian state scholarship. In 1933 he was awarded the Budapest Capital Award for his "''Loader''" statue.<ref name="Zalamegyei Ujság, 1943">{{Cite web|url=https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/ZalamegyeiUjsag_1943_4/?query=%22boldogfai%20farkas%22&pg=301&layout=s|title=Zalamegyei Ujság, 1943. október-december (26. évfolyam, 222–296. szám)1943-12-20 / 287. szám (Hungarian language)}}</ref> In 1942 he and Tibor Gallé opened a free arts school in Budapest. Sándor Bodlogfai Farkas married Ilona Nagy in Budapest, but soon divorced. On 6 November 1937 he married the noble lady Erzsébet Csákány de Lécfalva (1908–1970), daughter of Zsigmond Csákány de Lécfalva and Julianna Lányi.<ref>Béres Katalin: Az 1848–49-es forradalom és szabadságharc emlékhelyei Zala megyében (63. oldal)</ref><ref>Magyar Egyházművészeti Kiállítás az Országos Egyházművészeti Tanács rendezésében</ref><ref>ADATTÁR • Somogyi Antal: Boldogfai Farkas Sándor győri plakettjei (201. oldal)</ref>
On 19 December 1943, Ferenc Deák Literary and Art Circle was formed in Zalaegerszeg with the participation of 28 artists, including Sándor Boldogfai Farkas. He didn't fight in the Second World War, but after the [[Siege of Budapest|Soviets occupied Budapest]] in 1945 he was arrested by them; he was released only months later. He worked and lived at the Art Colony on Százados Avenue (''Százados úti művésztelep'').  The Second World War devastated great part of the buildings of Budapest: in 1957 the [[List of Hungarian sculptors|Hungarian sculptors]] Sándor Boldogfai Farkas, [[Ödön Metky]] and [[János Sóváry]] carved replicas in the [[New York Palace, Budapest|New York Café]]of the damaged allegorical sculptures of Thrift and Wealth, America and Hungary. For a while in the 1960s, his favorite subjects were animal life, holy persons, and creatures of Greek mythology. When the [[Payphone]] was introduced in [[Hungary]] Sándor Boldogfai Farkas designed the first coin (called "''Tantusz''") that used for these public machines.<ref>Képzőművészek Esztergomban a 20. században (Art Limes 2008/2. sz.)</ref><ref>Adattár • Fazekas Árpád: Kabay Jánosról (1896–1936). Kabay Ilona – Kabay Jánosné naplója (1924–1936) (336. oldal)</ref><ref>Zalai Magyar Élet, 1943. április-június (4. évfolyam, 74–144. szám)</ref>
Based on his life sized "Deer" named fountain sculpture of bronze, the [[Herend Porcelain Manufactory]] produced a porcelain figurine replica of a deer cow, breastfeeding it's calf (the piece is 25&nbsp;cm high).
His funeral was 10 days after his death on 23 November 1970, at the Göcseji Road Cemetery, [[Zalaegerszeg]]. Some of his medals are in the Göcsej Museum in Zalaegerszeg.<ref name="farkasásndorhalála">{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6XKP-6G?i=17&cc=1452460|title=familysearch.org Farkas Sándor halálának a bejegyzése}}</ref><ref name="farkasásndorgyász">{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DZPS-VFQ?i=739&wc=M6W2-C6D%3A101520801%2C106223601%3Fcc%3D1542666&cc=1542666|title=familysearch.org Boldogfai Farkas Sándor's obituary}}</ref>
==Several of his sculptures==
*„''Ne féljetek kicsinyhitűek''!" relief (1928, Balatonfüred, Round church)
*[[Thérèse of Lisieux]] (1933, Budapest, Saint Stephen Martyr church, II. District)
*[[Bust (sculpture)|Bust]] of vitéz [[Miklós Horthy]] (1936, Balatonfüred, Honvéd street 2.)
*[[Mihály Munkácsy]] (1936, Törökbálint, Munkácsy Mihály út 83.)
*[[János Kabay]] memorial tomb (1937, Budapest, Farkasréti cemetery)
*Bust of [[Lajos Tüköry]] (1938, Villa Garibaldi, Palermo)
*Female portré (1938, Nagykőrös, cemetery of Kecskeméti út)
*Fountain of the Holy Mary (1939, Budapest, Pasaréti square)
*Ifjú akt (1939, Zürich)
*Memorial plaque of [[László Kelemen]] (1940, Budapest I. District, Színház u. 1–3.)
*János Kabay (1946, Tiszavasvári, Báthori street 3.)
*[[Vilmos Apor]] tomb (1948, [[Cathedral Basilica of Győr]])
*[[Roe deer]] and it's calf (1953, Dorog)
*Mother with her child (1954, Budapest, Palatinus water park on [[Margaret Island]])
*[[Ferenc Erkel]] (1955, Budapest, [[Margaret Island]])
*Vizafogó (1955, Zalaegerszeg, city waterpark)
*Fountain díszkút (1956, Budapest XX. district, Teremszeg street)
*Bull leading (1956, Keszthely, Tapolcai street 45.)
*Juditka (1957, Nagykőrös, cemetery of Kecskeméti út)
*Dog (1957, Budapest XIX. District, Árpád street 14.)
*Pinguins (1958, Budapest X. District, Üllői úti ltp. Szárnyas street)
*[[Terpsichore]] (1960, Debrecen, Csokonai Theater)
*Ferenc Rózsa (1961, Budapest, Zrínyi Akadémia)
*Monkey (1961, Budapest III. District, Gyenes street 8.)
*Calf (1964, Budapest XI. District, next to the az Irinyi József u. 32/C)
*[[Bust (sculpture)|Bust]] of Döme Horváth (1964, Kecskemét, Noszlopy-park)
*Boy with sailboat (1965, Balatonfüred, Ady street 40.)
*Faun (1967, Dunavecse, Fő út 35.)
*[[Franz Liszt]] (1969, [[Zalaegerszeg]])
*Gyula Derkovits (1969, Budapest, Pihenő street 1.)
*[[Saint Emeric of Hungary]], (Budapest, [[St. Stephen's Basilica]])
*Saint [[Pope Pius X]] (Budapest, Kapisztrán Szent János church, II. District)
==References==
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[[Category:Farkas de Boldogfa family|Sandor]]