Pátzay Pál - Nővérek

The statue of Pál Pátzay was inaugurated in May 1946 on the south-western corner of Szent István (then Scitovszky) Square, as opposed to the high school that was still operating as a girls' grammar school and is now known as the Klára Leöwey Grammar School. Pátzay, whose career as a sculptor was sometimes mixed with political involvement, rose to the elite of artistic life at this time, and from 1945 he became a professor at the College of Fine Arts. (10 years later, he made one of the most famous statues in Pécs, the Hunyadi equestrian statue in Széchenyi Square.) He formed the Sisters as small sculptures in the 1930s, made of limestone in 1942, then bought from him by the city for 10,000 blades, but for the inauguration. because of World War II - we had to wait years. Interestingly, this statue depicts two sisters wearing simple, casual attire, snuggling close together, the smaller one leaning his head on the larger shoulder and the larger one looking upwards, somehow just towards the girls ’school building.

The work of the sculptor Pál Pátzay. The sculpture depicts a brother and sister since 1946.