page_title: Eduard Telcs
hierarchical_section_title: Eduard Telcs
caption_attribution_description: English: Netherlands, 1924 ND Judaica Plaque Medal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Ede Telcs. Bronze medallion 50 x 57 mm Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749 Frankfurt am Main - 1832 Weimar Portrait l. above 1 line: "GOETHE"/ uniface. Förschner -; Huszár-&#160;; Procopius Nr. 6168 Mint: Koninklijke Nederlandsche Edelmetaal Bedrijven Van Kempen, Begeer en Vos. "KONINKLUKE BEGEER VOORSCHOTEN" Medallist: Ede Telcs, Hungarian Jew, 1872 Baja (Hungary) - 1948 Budapest Condition: UNCIRCULATED in EXTEMELY FINE original Art Deco box of the issuing Dutch mint.
context_page_description: Eduard "Ede" Telcs was a Hungarian sculptor, and medallist; born at Baja, Hungary May 12, 1872; died 1948 in Budapest. At the age of twelve he went to Budapest and studied decorative art, but he soon left that city for Vienna, where he was educated for four years in the Allgemeine Bildhauerschule, winning the Füger gold medal with his "St. Boniface Striking Down the Banner of Wotan." He next entered Professor Zumbusch's school, where he studied for three years, gaining the school's first prize with his "Two Drinkers," which 1894 won a medal of the second class at the World's Fair in Antwerp. Telcs attracted particular attention in 1900 by being awarded, for his monument in honor of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, first prize among many competitors. In 1905 he was commissioned to work on a statue of the poet Vörösmarty to be erected in Budapest, and another of Kossuth in Kecskemét, having been awarded both these commissions as a result of competition.
  In World War II Budapest 1944 Telcs was ordered to wear the Jewish badge. Raoul Wallenberg helped to prevent his deportation into a Nazi extermination camp.
context_section_description: Eduard "Ede" Telcs was a Hungarian sculptor, and medallist; born at Baja, Hungary May 12, 1872; died 1948 in Budapest. At the age of twelve he went to Budapest and studied decorative art, but he soon left that city for Vienna, where he was educated for four years in the Allgemeine Bildhauerschule, winning the Füger gold medal with his "St. Boniface Striking Down the Banner of Wotan." He next entered Professor Zumbusch's school, where he studied for three years, gaining the school's first prize with his "Two Drinkers," which 1894 won a medal of the second class at the World's Fair in Antwerp. Telcs attracted particular attention in 1900 by being awarded, for his monument in honor of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, first prize among many competitors. In 1905 he was commissioned to work on a statue of the poet Vörösmarty to be erected in Budapest, and another of Kossuth in Kecskemét, having been awarded both these commissions as a result of competition.
  In World War II Budapest 1944 Telcs was ordered to wear the Jewish badge (Judenstern). Raoul Wallenberg helped to prevent his deportation into a Nazi extermination camp.    
  On September 19, 2008 on the 60th anniversary of his death a memorial was held in Baja at the house where he was born. Wreaths laid by the mayor and the member of  parliament for the region. A special exposition was also opened on the same day at the museum.  Telcs family members from all over the world gathered for this occasion.
caption: Art Deco box for Telcs' Goethe medal. Ede Telcs was Art Director during his time in The Netherlands from 1920 to 1924 at Koninklijke Nederlandsche Edelmetaal Bedrijven Van Kempen, Begeer en Vos, the editor of this plaque medal.
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