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Ödön Lechner (born Eugen Lechner, 27 August 1845 – 10 June 1914) was a Hungarian
architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
, one of the prime representatives of the Hungarian Szecesszió style, which was related to Art Nouveau in the rest of Europe, including the
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. He is famous for decorating his buildings with
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tile patterns inspired by old Magyar and Turkic folk art, which are combined with modern materials such as
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. Lechner's work was submitted in 2008 for inclusion on the
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.


Early career and travel

Lechner was born in Pest into a bourgeois family. His father, János Lechner (1812–1884), of Bavarian descent, was a certified lawyer, capital tax collector, and owner of a brick factory, who married Terézia Schummayer (1817–1895). His paternal grandparents were János Lechner Nepomuk (1774–1845), the head of a building materials factory and the Royal Beauty Commissioner of Pest and Erzsébet Hupf (1786–1853). He began his secondary school studies at the Real School of Downtown Pest (Pest-belvárosi Reáltanodán), then he attended the József Ipartanoda (now the Budapest University of Technology and Economics) to study architecture in 1865–66, where one of his teachers was
Antal Szkalnitzky Antal Szkalnitzky (6 May 1836 – 9 June 1878) was a Hungarian architect.Szkalnitzky Antal
Buda and Pest's major public buildings in the decades before the two cities merged in 1873. In 1866 Lechner went to Berlin, where he spent three years at the Academy of Architecture with Alajos Hauszmann and Gyula Pártos, studying under
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, who became a great influence with his lectures on building materials, especially the role of iron-framed structures. After finishing his studies in Berlin, Lechner departed on a one-year tour and study in
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in 1868 with his wife Irma Primayer, whom he had recently married. In 1869 he went into a partnership with Gyula Pártos and the architecture firm received a steady flow of commissions during the boom years of the 1870s, during the construction of buildings lining the ring roads on the Pest side of the
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. The commissions the partners received were primarily apartment houses in which Lechner worked in the prevailing
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style, drawing on neo-classical influences from Berlin and the
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. Lechner interrupted his partnership with Pártos between 1874 and 1878 when he went to work in the studio of
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in France, where he was involved in the restoration of many French monuments. He took part in the design and renovation of seven castles. This was also influenced by a family tragedy, as after a six-year marriage, Lechner lost his wife Irma in 1875 and was left alone with two small children. In 1879 he also visited England. Returning home, he reunited with Pártos and together they built a series of large-scale works, such as
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City Hall (1882), the apartment building of the former MÁV Pension Institute in Budapest at Andrássy út 25 (1883), and the Milkó House in Szeged). These still represent the historicizing style, but several features of his later art, such the use of folk ornamentation, are already evident in these designs. In 1889–90 he made his second visit to England, this time with
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, a stoneware and terracotta manufacturer. There he studied oriental ceramics, primarily Indian decorative elements, at the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). There was also a trace of English influence among his works, most notably Zsambok Castle (unfortunately destroyed in the
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).


Development of szecesszió and a Hungarian national style

After 1890, Lechner increasingly turned to Hungarian folklore, as derived from
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n and
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n decorative arts, as his inspiration in his aim to form a Hungarian national style. His relationship with Zsolnay flourished and throughout the rest of his career he began to make free use of the company's stoneware tiles, beginning with the Thonet House in Budapest, Váci utca (1889) with its steel structure and the façade covered with Zsolnay terracotta. He followed this up with the Museum of Applied Arts (1893–96), a commission for which he and Pártos won the design competition in 1891. The building's glazed tiles, the pyrogranite decorative elements, and the pierced floral motifs testify to Lechner's newfound Indian, Persian, Moorish, and Hungarian folk influences, as well as the cladding theories of German architectural theorist Gottfried Semper. The building represented a significant break from the historicism - mostly Baroque- and Gothic-revival architecture - popular in Budapest at the time. Though it encountered a mixed reception amongst critics, it was triumphantly inaugurated in time for the 1896 celebrations of the millennium anniversary of the
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. The building is today considered the first complete statement of Hungarian Szecesszió (Art Nouveau) architecture, and it formed a counterweight in the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy to the work of the
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developed later in
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around
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,
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, Gustav Klimt, and others. After 1896, Lechner and Pártos dissolved their partnership, with each continuing on in independent practice. In 1897 Lechner was commissioned to build the new home, on Stefánia út east of the city center, of the
Geological Museum of Budapest The Geological Museum of Budapest or Hungarian Institute of Geology and Geophysics is the main museum of geology in Hungary. It is located on the Stefánia út in the western part of Pest. The building was originally the home of the Hungarian Ge ...
, another of his distinctive Szecesszió designs. These developments in his vocabulary arguably reached their peak with the new Royal Postal Savings Bank (today the Hungarian State Treasury), on Hold utca in Budapest, built from 1899 to 1904. On 1 July 1900 he was named a "Királyi tanácsos" (Royal Counselor) to the King of Hungary, Emperor
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, and for his work on the building the Hungarian Képzőművészek egyesülete (Association of Fine Artists) awarded him their "Nagy Aranyéremmel," or Grand Gold Medal. Among Lechner's ecclesiastical commissions, perhaps the most notable is the parish church of St. Ladislaus in
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, Budapest, although its design is based on the earlier plans of Elek Barcza. The most significant commission of the last decade of his life was the Catholic Church of St. Elizabeth in Bratislava (then still called Poszony) (1907–13), an exuberant Szecesszió design built as the private chapel of an adjacent Gymnasium school, which is now an independent parish.


Late career and influence

Lechner received a gold medal at the Rome International Architecture Exhibition in 1911, along with his
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n rival
Otto Wagner Otto Koloman Wagner (; 13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau move ...
. In the early 1900s, he received some small assignments, such as the reconstruction of the Dominican House in Szeged; the entrance to the Ernst Museum, Budapest; the Balázs Sipeki Villa; and the Péter Vajda Street School; but he enjoyed little success in his search for larger commissions. In 1906 he published a summary of his views in the journal ''Művészet''. One of Lechner's final commissions was for the Gyula Vermes house in the fifth district of Budapest in 1910–11. Nonetheless, his creation of the Szecesszió spawned a number of followers and imitators throughout Hungary, including
Béla Lajta Béla Lajta (until 1907 Béla Leitersdorfer) (Óbuda, 23 January 1873 – Vienna, 12 October 1920) was a prominent Hungarian architect. Career Lajta finished his degree at the Budapest Technical University and worked briefly under Alajos Haus ...
, Géza Maróti, Dezső Jakab and , Zoltán Bálint, , , , , István Medgyaszay,
Aladár Árkay Aladár Árkay ( Temesvár, February 1, 1868 - Budapest, February 2, 1932) was a Hungarian architect, craftsman, and painter.Albert Kálmán Kőrössy.


Buildings and projects

* 1870: Batthyány Tomb * 1871: House of József Lenhossék, Budapest VIII., Múzeum krt. 33 (destroyed) * 1871: Military men's house of 1848, Budapest IX., Soroksári út 62 (destroyed) * 1871–72: János Primayer House, Budapest V., Sas u. 9 (Former Kéksas Street) (Lechner himself lived here, his father-in-law's residence, for an extended period) * 1871–74: Apartment building, Budapest V., Szent István tér 3 * 1871–75: Pál Mándl house, Budapest VI., Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 43 * 1872–74: Kecskemét apartment building, Budapest V., Veres Pálné utca 9 * 1873: Arad City Hall (plan) * 1874: Tomb of Irma Primayer, Budapest VIII., Fiumei Úti Tomb Garden * 1874–75: Kecskemét Savings Bank, Kecskemét, Szabadság tér * 1875: Skating Rink, Budapest, Városliget (demolished in 1893) * 1880: School,
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* 1882: Kecskemét City Baths (unbuilt) * 1882–83: City Hall, Szeged, Széchenyi tér 10 (with Gyula Pártos ) * 1882–83: Milkó Palace (monument),
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, Roosevelt Square 5 * 1882–84: Hungarian Railway Pensioners Building (''Palais Drechsler''),
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, (with Pártos) * 1885–86: Nagybecskerek City Hall, (today's
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,
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), (with Pártos) * 1885–86:
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, County Hall * 1887: Rudolf cavalry barracks, Kecskemét (listed monument) * 1888–89: Thonet House, Budapest V., Váci u. 11 (listed monument) * 1888: Ottó Biedermann Castle, Mozsgó (destroyed in a fire in 1917 and then partially restored) * 1889–91: Karlovci Gymnasium, Karlóca (now
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,
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) (with Pártos) * 1889–93: Szegzárd Hotel,
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* 1890–96. Kecskemét City Hall, Kossuth Lajos tér 1 (with Pártos) * 1891–96: Budapest Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest IX., Üllői út 33-37 (listed monument) * 1891–97:
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Church (''Szent László-plébániatemplom''),
Kőbánya Kőbánya (literally: Quarry, ) is the 10th district of Budapest () and one of the largest by territory. It is located in southeast Pest, easily accessible from the downtown by Metro 3, whose terminus is named '' Kőbánya-Kispest''. It ...
, Budapest X., Templom tér (listed monument) * 1892–93: Palace of Simon Leovich, Subotica,
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* 1894: Ferenc József Bridge traffic plan, Budapest * 1895: Lechner House, Budapest IX., Berzenczey u. 11 * 1895: Greek Church Street, Kecskemét, Bazaar Row * 1896–99: Geological Institute, Budapest * 1897: Ilka Lechner Vacation House,
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, Korányi u. 8. * 1898–1900: Lechner House, Bartók Béla út 40 (listed monument) * 1899: Stock Exchange, Budapest (unbuilt) * 1899–1901: The Postal Savings Bank building (''Postatakarékpénztár''), Budapest * 1900: Villa of Károly Lechner, Cluj-Napoca * 1902: Postal Palace plan, Bratislava (with Béla Lajta) * 1902–04: Klein Castle, Szirma (now
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) (with Béla Lajta; destroyed in World War II) * 1903: Gerngross Department Store, Vienna (design competition) * 1903: Tomb of Schmidl family,
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, Budapest, together with
Béla Lajta Béla Lajta (until 1907 Béla Leitersdorfer) (Óbuda, 23 January 1873 – Vienna, 12 October 1920) was a prominent Hungarian architect. Career Lajta finished his degree at the Budapest Technical University and worked briefly under Alajos Haus ...
* 1905: Ministry of Culture, Budapest V., Széchenyi rkp. (design competition) * 1905: Villa of Balázs Béla Sipeki, today MVGYOSZ, the headquarters of the Hungarian Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired, Budapest XIV., Hermina út 47 (listed monument) * 1906–08: Royal Catholic Gymnasium in Pozsony ( Pressburg),
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(''Kráľovské katolícke gymnázium'' in today's Bratislava,
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) * 1907–13: The Church of St. Elizabeth (Blue Church) in Pozsony ( Pressburg) (today's Bratislava) * 1909: State Teacher Career Training Center,
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* 1909: Plans of the monument to Queen Elizabeth, Budapest, Castle Hill * 1909–10: Kecskemét, Water Tower and Rákóczi monument, plan * 1909–12: Saint Ladislaus Church in
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, USA * 1910: Mixed-use building at Irányi ut 15, Budapest * 1910-11: Gyula Vermes House, Budapest * 1913–24: Simor Street School (today Péter Vajda Primary and Sports School of Singing and Music), Budapest VIII., Vajda Péter u. 25-31 * 1914: Szent László Gimnázium, Budapest X. (Kőbánya), Kőrösi Csoma Sándor út 28-34 (listed monument) * 1914: Francis Joseph Memorial Church, Budapest VIII., Rezső tér (design competition, 1st prize)Ferenc József emléktemplom a Rezső téren. Tervpályázat I. díj
 * 1914–15: Szent László Gimnázium, Budapest


Gallery

Szeged-varoshaza.jpg, City Hall,
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Zrenjanin City Hall Zrenjanin City Hall ( sr, Градска кућа / , hu, Városháza) is located at the Trg Slobode (Liberty Square) in Zrenjanin, Serbia. It is a seat of the Zrenjanin municipality. History Present-day Zrenjanin (formerly known as Veliki B ...
, today's Serbia (1885–86) Szentlaszlotemplom-budapest.jpg, Saint Ladislaus Church,
Kőbánya Kőbánya (literally: Quarry, ) is the 10th district of Budapest () and one of the largest by territory. It is located in southeast Pest, easily accessible from the downtown by Metro 3, whose terminus is named '' Kőbánya-Kispest''. It ...
(1891–97) Kecskemet City Hall2.jpg, City Hall,
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(1893) Museum of Applied Arts. Main facade from south. BudapestDSCN3639.jpg, Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest (1896) Former Postal Savings Bank, CoA. - Hold Street, 2016 Budapest.jpg, Postal Saving Bank (1899–1901) Blue Church, Bratislava 01.jpg, The
Blue Church The Church of St. Elizabeth ( sk, Kostol svätej Alžbety, hu, Szent Erzsébet templom), commonly known as Blue Church (''Modrý kostolík'', ''Kék templom''), is a Hungarian-Secessionist (Jugendstil, Art Nouveau) Catholic church located in ...
of
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(Pressburg) (today's Bratislava,
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) (1907–13) Gymnázium Grösslingová.jpg, Gymnázium Grösslingová in
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(Pressburg) (today's Bratislava) (1906–08) Foldtani-Intezet-P8230174.jpg, Geological Museum, Budapest (1896–99) Szent László Gimnázium.JPG, Szent László Gimnázium, Budapest (1914–15) Statue of Ödön Lechner (Ildikó Zsemlye), 2016 Budapest.jpg, Statue of Lechner by Ildikó Zsemlye in Kőbánya


Monuments and memorials

* The Ödön Lechner Society was founded in 1928; its founding members included Béla Bartók,
Zoltán Kodály Zoltán Kodály (; hu, Kodály Zoltán, ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music edu ...
, Jenő Lechner, Loránd Lechner, István Medgyaszay, and Kornél Neuschloss. * There is a statue in front of the Museum of Applied Arts, next to the Margaret Island Artist's Promenade, and in Szent László Square in Kőbánya. * Lechner's bust can be seen in the pantheon of Dóm Square in Szeged. * A row of trees in the capital, a square in Szeged, and streets in several cities (such as Kecskemét), are named for Lechner. * Lechner's burial place is the 19th tomb of the 28th row of the Fiumei Úti Tomb Garden.


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The 'Hungarian Gaudi': Architect Ödön Lechner in 4 buildings
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