Nándor Wagner

He and his Japanese wife, Chiyo Wagner, established the TAO Research Institute of World Culture and Development, which continues to support education of young talented artists and promotion of the arts in Mashiko.

After the war in his studio at Ybl Bazár in Budapest he created statues: the Corpus Hungaricum, Attila József the poet and Sorrow of Mother among others.

Jointly with Zoltán Farkasdy architect they won first prize with their plan titled Fountain with three boys at the competition for art composition to Jászai Mari square just at the foot of the Margit Bridge in 1955.

Besides and parallel to making sculptures he organized the local historical collection at St. István Museum of Székesfehérvár with placing the objects found at excavations in a correctly reconstructed environment created by artist between 1952 and 1956.

Called upon art students to take drawing tools instead of guns to record the moments of revolution on the streets for the future.

He invented a new calculation method how to overcome the shrinkage problem at casting large-scale statues and art objects from stainless steel.

His name was founded in Japan by winning the contest of creating large size art objects for the hotel area of the New International Tokyo Airport in Narita.

A 6 m tall two-figure statue of Patron Saint of Travelers (Dosojin) was erected and also a 12 m in diameter rainbow fountain was placed in front of Narita View Hotel both made from stainless steel.

The five figures (Abraham, Echnaton, Jesus, Buddha and Lao Tse) around the centre point are symbolizing different culture of the world.

This road of the Garden of Philosophy shows development of human kind and time brings us the question for necessity of new common law of the world to be discussed.

The group of eleven statues version of Garden of Philosophy was presented to Japan in 2009 commemorating the 140th and 50th anniversary of Hungarian-Japanese diplomatic relationship.

Corpus Hungaricum (1951), bronze, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Sculpture – Four Children (1964)
Four Children Fountain (1964), cast stainless steel, Eskön, Sweden.
Garden of Philosophy (2001)
Garden of Philosophy on Gellért Hill in Budapest, a group of eight statues "for better mutual understanding".