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(PAGE 26) Dylan Roscover found the right words to
create a portrait of Jobs.
A Memory of Jobs Is Cast in Bronze
Steve Jobs left a lasting impression on Hungarian soft-
ware developer Gabor Bojar when the two met at a tech
conference in Germany in 1984. Bojar was demonstrating
3D modeling software for architects at the time, and Jobs
was so impressed that he asked Graphisoft to develop
the modeling software for the Lisa computer. Jobs also
committed Apple’s marketing support to the effort.
Macintosh computers were an embargoed product in
Communist-controlled Hungary, but when Jobs gave
Bojar one so he could develop similar software for the
Mac, the developer found a way to smuggle it into the
country. Today, outside of Bojar’s firm in Budapest, a
bronze statue stands testament to their chance meeting.
Soon after Jobs died in October 2011, Bojar com-
missioned well-known Hungarian painter and sculptor
Tóth Ernő to immortalize the Apple founder in a posture
well-known to the world: it captures Jobs in his signature
jeans and mock-turtleneck shirt, pacing on a stage and
gesturing boldly with one hand as he holds an Apple
device in the other. Millions had seen Jobs in exactly
this pose when new Apple products were unveiled.
Ernő created the bespectacled Jobs statue, standing
more than 7 feet and weighing 440 pounds, in about two
months. He added a memorial placard shaped like an iPad.
“There are memorials of Steve Jobs every year at the
sculpture, when wreaths and flowers are brought there,”
explained the artist. “My Steve Jobs sculpture was inspired
by… [his] temperament, mentality, and maximalism. I hope
this can be felt when somebody looks at the statue.”
Bojar credits the success of his firm to Jobs’s vision
and early support of his product. “A real entrepreneur is
never afraid to take a risk,” Bojar said in an interview for a
Graphisoft blog. Were it not for that initial meeting with Jobs
and the Apple executive’s willingness to take a risk with a
fledgling software development company, Graphisoft might
not exist today according to Bojar.
The statue was unveiled in December 2011 in a public
ceremony. At the dedication, Bojar spoke of Jobs with great
reverence:
He was a real leader in the true sense of the
word because he didn’t personally create the
miracles, but rather, with his fantastic charisma
and power of suggestion, brought out the best
in his colleagues. We know he was a very diffi-
cult man as well, maybe even unbearable, but
geniuses are generally difficult people.
We can best serve Steve Jobs’s legacy
if we all, to the best of our ability, carry on
his spirit in our firms and further the cause of
this amazing and new information technology
revolution.
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(PAGE 27 BOTTOM) Artist Tóth Ernő mirrors the
gesture of his bronze creation.
PHOTO: Tóth Ernő
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Steve Jobs stands outside Graphisoft, a software
company that might not have been around today
if it weren’t for Jobs, according to the CEO. PHOTO:
Tóth Ernő
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