Ignác Alpár József (born Schöckl József; 17 January 1855 in Pest – 27 April 1928 in

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) was a Hungarian architect.Ignác Alpár

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Career

Alpár began his career as a stonemason, then worked under architect

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. After completing formal studies in

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, he returned to

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to work under

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and Hauszmann again. He began independent practice in 1890, working mainly on public projects in a historicist, eclectic style. The most well known of these is the so-called

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built for the millenary celebrations in 1896, which incorporated architectural styles practised in Hungary from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period.

Buildings

* Town halls: Sighişoara,

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, etc. * Colleges: Eötvös College * Churches: Sighişoara Reformed Church, Braşov Reformed Church (demolished 1963) * Baths:

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* Banks: Hungarian National Bank, Budapest (1902–05); Hungarian National Trade Bank (long time functioned as the building of the Ministry of Home Affairs); General Hungarian Credit Bank (currently the building of the Ministry of Finance); First Hungarian Savings Bank (currently the building of the Treasury) * Former Stock Exchange building, Budapest (long time housed the Hungarian National Television) *

Anker Palace Anker Palace ( hu, Anker-palota) is a building in Terézváros, Budapest. It was built by Ignác Alpár in 1908 for a Viennese insurance company, the Anker Life and Pension Company. The building was built in the eclectic style and was completed in ...

, Budapest

Legacy

* In 1958 the Ignác Alpár memorial prize was established by the Society of Architects, which is awarded annually for significant achievements in building. * There is a statue of Alpár in front of the Vajdahunyad castle by

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. He is depicted wearing the robes of a master architect from the Middle Ages.

References

Hungarian architects Hungarian-German people Hungarian expatriates in Switzerland People from Pest, Hungary 1855 births 1928 deaths Burials at Kerepesi Cemetery Historicist architects {{Hungary-hist-stub