The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1910)

HUNGARIAN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATION
of transition. There is continual probing and searching going on
amongst architects, but any movement is welcomed, for it will
prevent a return to the old condition of stagnation. The gap
between the Academic and the National in modern Hungarian
Architecture is a wide one, and it will be some time before it
disappears. But much is being done by means of exhibitions,
lectures and publications to propagate the ideas of Lechner, and the
future holds out considerable promise.
Among the modern men there are some who have done good
work both in architecture and decoration. In their buildings two
distinct styles may be easily recognised, one the purely Hungarian
and the other mainly influenced by the leading English architects,
whose work is chiefly known to them through the channels of
The Studio. Eduard Wigand is now in distant Transylvania,
where he is erecting workmen’s model homes, purely Hungarian
in style ; Professor Gera Maroti in Mexico is building a theatre,
which, from the models, promises to be highly original and
characteristic. He has spent some time there and has met with
warm encouragement in his work. Josef Vago, Geza Marcus,
Bela Malnai, Marcell Homor, and Bela Lajta are all producing
excellent work, the last-named having planned the Jewish cemetery
in Budapest. Of the purely decorative artists Aladar Kriesch and
Sandor Nagy deserve a foremost place. They are members of the
little artists’ colony in Godollo.
A. S. Levetus.

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