Little Princess statue
| Little Princess Statue, Budapest (Kiskirálylány) | |
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| Kiskirálylány szobor (Statue) (Hungarian) | |
 Little Princess Statue in Budapest, Hungary. | |
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| Artist | László Marton |
| Year | 1972/1990 |
| Dimensions | 50 cm (20 in) |
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Little Princess (Hungarian: Kiskirálylány) is a statue of a small girl sitting on the railings of the Danube Promenade in Budapest, Hungary. It is the work of the Kossuth Prize-winning sculptor László Marton (1925–2008), who made the original 50-centimetre (20 in) statuette in 1972; the life-size version on the promenade was unveiled in 1990. The original statuette is in the Hungarian National Gallery.
The model was Marton's eldest daughter, Évi, from his first marriage, who liked to dress up as a princess. Marton recalled seeing her play in the Tabán in a princess costume, with a bathrobe as a mantle and a crown he had made for her out of newspaper. When the city later asked him for a statue, he offered this figure.
Copies of the statue stand in Tapolca, the sculptor's home town, and in front of the concert hall of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, to which Marton donated it. Of his more than forty works in Budapest, Marton was proudest of Little Princess and his statue of the poet Attila József.
Notes
- ↑ The website about the statue gives 1989 as the year the larger version was installed.
References
- 1 2 "The Little Princess Statue, Story". In Memory of My Father. Retrieved 27 October 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "10 unusual statues in Budapest". We Love Budapest. 4 June 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2026.
- 1 2 "Elhunyt Marton László szobrászművész" [Sculptor László Marton has died]. Infostart (in Hungarian). 6 October 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2026.
- ↑ Quote from László Marton's autobiographical book "My Walk of Life".
- ↑ "Kiskirálylány – Marton László szobrászművész". www.szepmagyarorszag.hu. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
External links
Media related to Little Princess at Wikimedia Commons- In Memory of My Father, website about the statue
