Rudolf Züllich (1813 in

Gyulafehérvár Alba Iulia (; or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; ; ) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the river Mureș in the historical region of Transylvania, it has a population of ...

– 1890 in

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) was a Hungarian sculptor noted for his

classicist Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

style. He is best known for his bust of

József Katona József Katona (11 November 1791, Kecskemét – 16 April 1830, Kecskemét) was a Hungarian playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian historical tragedy '' Bánk bán''. Biography József Katona was born and died in Kecskemét. He stud ...

. After studying sculpture and working in

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and Rome, he returned to Pest and in 1846 modelled Juno a 132 cm tall white

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statue. Many of his busts are in the

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. The following years of his life saw him in

Kolozsvár Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

, Paris,

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and towards his later years in

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where he died in

in 1890.

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Fine Arts in Hungary
1813 births 1890 deaths People from Alba Iulia Hungarian sculptors 19th-century Hungarian sculptors {{Hungary-sculptor-stub