Géza Márkus (Pest, 4 August 1871 –

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

, 6 December 1912) was a Hungarian Jewish architect.

Life

He was the brother-in-law of conductor Dezső Márkus and newspaper writer Miksa Márkus. His first works show the influence of the modern Viennese Art Nouveau, later

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(the apartment building of the city of Kecskemét, the Erdey Sanatorium in Bakács Square). With Frigyes Spiegel, he won the 1st prize in the competition of the Szeged Music Palace. His last work is the Budapest Folk Opera, which he designed together with architects

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and

Dezső Jakab Dezső Jakab (4 November 1864 – 5 August 1932) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian architect of History of the Jews in Hungary, Jewish heritage. Life He received his degree in architecture from the Budapest University of Technology. At the t ...

. He was one of the pioneers of modern Hungarian theater construction and set design. He designed the architectural parts of the Vörösmarty memorial. He has been an art critic for a long time for Magyar Hírlap and other newspapers.Magyar zsidó lexikon. Szerk. Ujvári Péter. Budapest: Magyar Zsidó Lexikon. 1929

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