A Book on Mihály Pollack

Text: György Szegő

Edited by János Gerle and published by Holnap Publishing House, the new volume of the series entitled The Masters of Architecture is a large-scale venture. Pollack is the first master in chronology and his veneration is just about to take shape – even though very slowly – in the memory of posterity. As a master he was highly influential and affected Hungarian architecture when it was on the rise at the end of the 19th century. Miklós Ybl was an architect maturing in Pollack’s studio. Pollack had been the master of some of the most significant works of Hungarian Classicism such as the Festetich Castle in Dég and Almásy Palace in Pest.