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Apr 12, 1913 Gălăuțaș, Romania Died on 01 Feb 2004 (aged 90)
Hungarian-Romanian sculptor
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About Izsák Márton
- Márton Izsák (István) (English: Martin Isaac ) was a prolific Transylvanian Jewish sculptor of Hungarian descent, noted personality and recipient of the honorary citizenship award from the city of Târgu Mure?. The son of Izsák Jakab (a government official, professional soldier and eventual store owner), by arranged marriage to Friedman Vilma, Márton was born in Galau?a?.
- After his family home in Gheorgheni burned down in World War I, his family spent some years in Petele before eventually settling down in Târgu Mure?.After moving to the city, he spent some time apprenticing in furniture making under an artist named Rózsa Géza, who noted Márton's artistic talent.
- At the artist's behest, Márton's father enrolled him in an arts program, and he spent the next 3 years learning how to carve at the Industrial High School in Târgu Mure?, but before finishing he was invited by Rózsa to complete highschool, and then continue to an arts degree, at the College of Applied Arts in Budapest, graduating (notably early for his age) in 1933.
- While at the College, he studied under notable sculptors Imre Simay and Lajos Mátrai.
- In the late 1930s he returned home to Târgu Mure?, where he remained until his deportation (despite his fathers' world war I medals, which should have afforded some protection) at the beginning of World War II.
- He gained recognition and eventually presented his works in personal exhibitions in 1936 and in 1937. During the war, he lost 25 relatives, including his mother, to death camps.
- After his return to the city from labour camp in 1944, he worked as well recognized instructor and eventually art director at the acclaimed Liceul Vocational de Artâ (art high school) in Târgu Mure? 1945 to 1974.During his time at the art school, he produced many notable works, including several collaborations with István Csorvássy.
- His Monument to the Deportees, erected in Dej in front of the local Orthodox synagogue is one of the earliest Holocaust memorials to be erected in Europe, and memorializes ~7000 jews relocated to the nearby Dej ghetto and eventually deported and killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Many of his other works still are on display in several cities, but primarily in Târgu Mure? – including the notable "Two Bolyai" in Bolyai Square in Târgu Mure?.The mysterious overnight removal, in 1962 of his statue of Stalin, erected just five years earlier in 1957, is remembered as signifying the metaphorical end of a Soviet Union domination of Romania during De-Stalinization in Romania.In 2003, a public Holocaust memorial was erected in Târgu Mure?, based on a cast and plans originally produced for Dej in 1947.
- Shortly before his death, he was ordained as ro:Ceta?ean de onoare (Honorary Citizen, an order recognizing civic contribution) for the city.
