{"id":14555,"date":"2015-09-22T19:42:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meonline.hu\/?p=14555"},"modified":"2015-09-22T19:43:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:43:05","slug":"es-format-olt-a-gondolat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/magyar-epitomuveszet-hirek\/es-format-olt-a-gondolat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and the idea takes shape&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Albert Schickedanz, Builder of the M\u0171csarnok<br \/>\nKunsthalle (M\u0171csarnok), 5 September &#8211; 18 October 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14556\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14556\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/meonline.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/schickedanz_keseru.jpg\" alt=\"Arch\u00edv fot\u00f3 a M\u0171csarnok f\u0151homlokzat\u00e1sr\u00f3l, 1987 \u00a9 Fortepan\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/schickedanz_keseru.jpg 600w, https:\/\/meonline.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/schickedanz_keseru-236x150.jpg 236w, https:\/\/meonline.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/schickedanz_keseru-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arch\u00edv fot\u00f3 a M\u0171csarnok f\u0151homlokzat\u00e1sr\u00f3l, 1987 \u00a9 Fortepan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The M\u0171csarnok and the Millennium Memorial were the joint concept of Albert Schickedanz and sculptor Gy\u00f6rgy Zala (whose exhibition is currently running at the M\u0171csarnok). Both projects were completed by 1896 for the events celebrating the millennium of the Magyars\u2019 arrival in the Carpathian Basin (although all of the sculptures were not fully installed until 1929). Andr\u00e1ssy \u00fat, the avenue completing the Castle\u2013Chain Bridge axis, was an ideal setting for a ceremonial promenade. The M\u0171csarnok was to become an important venue among the Hungarian bourgeoisie that had been given a new lease of life after the Reform era. An incredible feat in both intellectual and practical terms, the planning and building of Heroes\u2019 Square, the M\u0171csarnok and the Museum of Fine Arts were the climax of a dazzling career. How Schickedanz, a modest but versatile master builder, found himself in the prime of his life at the helm of a megaproject (that would have been a test of any celebrity architect\u2019s mettle) in his newly-founded company, the elegant-sounding Schickedanz-Herzog Architects, can be explained by his relentless pursuit of perfection evident from his previous work. The success of his buildings and spaces undoubtedly lies in their sacred and spiritual character, largely due to Schickedanz\u2019s generous treatment of space and mass, his sense of detail, respect for tradition, knowledge of new materials and techniques and, not least, a monastic dedication to his job. Albert Schickedanz was born into a family of Saxon descent in 1846 in Bielsko Biala, a small town in Silesia, then part of the Habsburg Empire. The family moved to K\u00e9sm\u00e1rk [today Kezmarok, Slovakia] in 1848 and were living in Tokaj at the time of the 1867 Compromise. In spite of his German origins, Schickedanz\u2019s father had fought in the 1848\u20131849 war of independence, for which he was even sentenced to prison in a castle. Albert Schickedanz began his studies in 1865 at the Politechnische Schule in Karlsruhe, but was forced to take on a job due to the family\u2019s financial circumstances. He first worked for Karl Tietz Architects in Vienna, but moved to Pest in 1858 and served as a draughtsman in Mikl\u00f3s Ybl\u2019s office for over ten years while taking on design jobs for other architects too. He learnt to paint in the studios of K\u00e1roly Lotz and Bertalan Sz\u00e9kely, which he made good use of in Ybl\u2019s office. He produced numerous watercolours to illustrate the plans of buildings they were working on.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Schickedanz, Builder of the M\u0171csarnok Kunsthalle (M\u0171csarnok), 5 September &#8211; 18 October 2015 The M\u0171csarnok and the Millennium Memorial were the joint concept of Albert Schickedanz and sculptor Gy\u00f6rgy Zala (whose exhibition is currently running at the M\u0171csarnok). Both projects were completed by 1896 for the events celebrating the millennium of the Magyars\u2019 arrival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[445,524,7,3,17,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14557,"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555\/revisions\/14557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}