György Vastagh (sculptor)

From 1889 to 1891, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, with drawing classes from Gabriel von Hackl and lessons in modeling from Syrius Eberle.

A year later, he entered a competition, sponsored by the city of Kolozsvár, to create a monument for Matthias Corvinus on the 400th anniversary of his death, but the commission was awarded to János Fadrusz.

For the Exposition Universelle (1900), he was commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture to create sculptures of Hungary's finest breeding animals.

In 1901, he was commissioned to create a statue of King Gábor Bethlen, one of his best known works, which is now in Hősök tere (Heroes' Square).

In 1931, he received a major one from Egypt, consisting of fifty statues of sheep, cattle and horses for a new agricultural museum there.

A statue of Artúr Görgei that he created in 1935, for Buda Castle, was destroyed in 1945 to provide materials for one of Stalin.