Imre Varga (1 November 1923 – 9 December 2019) was a Hungarian sculptor, painter, designer and graphic artist.
From 1950 to 1956, Varga studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest under Sándor Mikus [hu] and Pál Pátzay, graduating with a degree.
[4] One of his public statues is the Holocaust Memorial, located behind the Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest's Jewish Quarter District VII.
The memorial is constructed in the shape of a weeping willow tree, with names of Hungarian Holocaust victims on the leaves.
He created a wide array of works – ranging from statues of Vladimir Lenin to the Holocaust, to statues of Francis II Rákóczi, Raoul Wallenberg,[6] Sir Winston Churchill and Béla Bartók to Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle.