Fieldcrest Fine Arts Presents
a signed Gyula Jankovits Bronze
The Goose Thief, a bronze group of a boy looking back over his shoulder as he runs away, following his stealing two geese, signed “JANKOVITS” and inscribed “AUSTRIA” with adjacent foundry mark, a rich patina, measuring 12 ½” high by 10,” wide including marble base, likely sculpted circa 1890 prior to his return from Vienna to Budapest.
(The marble base has a small chip off one corner.)
Gyula Jankovits (1865-1920) Hungarian, studied at the School of Arts and Crafts and later at the Munich Academy. He won the Franz Josef I Prize in 1888 for his group “The Virgin and the Repentant Magdalene.” Later he studied at the Vienna Academy for six years before returning to Budapest where he sculpted many statues and monuments, the most notable of which is today lighted and seen from almost every part of Budapest⎯his 1904 bronze-sculpted monument, “Saint Gilbert,“ the 11th Century Benedictine Abbot of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, who helped convert the Magyars to Christianity.
