Ignác Alpár

Ignatz Schoeckl (born 17 January 1855 in Pest, † April 27, 1928 in Zurich ) Magyarised from 1880 as Alpár Ignatius, was a Hungarian architect of historicism.

Life

Ignatz Schoeckl was born in 1855 as son of originating from Graz master carpenter and fabrikanten Matthias Schoeckl. His mother Eiselle Maria came from a family of industrialists Württemberg. In 1873 he received a mason journeyman at the age of 18 years. Until 1877 he studied six years at the Berlin Academy of Architecture, among others at Heinrich Strack and Richard Lucae. He then undertook a study trip to Italy and Tunisia. On his return to Budapest in 1880, he had to change his name to Ignatius Alpár. Between 1882 and 1885 he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Budapest, first at Emmerich Steindl, then at Alois Hauszmann.

1884 opened Alpár his own office in Budapest and from 1890 he worked only independently. Due to several competitions won his office in the following years became one of the largest planning firm in Hungary. His first buildings include numerous tenements, upper-class houses in Budapest and various public buildings in smaller towns, mainly in Transylvania but also in Sopron ( Sopron ), Pécs ( Pécs ) and Bratislava ( Pressburg ). From the turn of the century Budapest was the capital of his work. 1906 undertook a journey to Constantinople Alpár Opel, Syria and Palestine.

After the First World War ended Alpár his professional activity. In 1925 the now 70 -year-old architect a stone relief at the historic ensemble Vajdahunyad was placed in the City Park in honor. As a member of a Hungarian delegation to the unveiling of the statue of Kossuth on Manhattan's Riverside Park, he undertook at the beginning of 1928, yet a trip to New York. On his return journey he spent a few days in Paris, on his ill continue the 73 -year-old Alpár from influenza and died in April 1928 in a sanatorium in Zurich. He was laid out in the castle Vajdahunyad and buried in the cemetery Kerepesi.

Work

Ignatius Alpár planned and built over a hundred buildings. In his early works he incorporated most elements of the Romanesque and Gothic periods, and later elements of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. At the turn of the century erscheinten in some of his works, elements of Hungarian Art Nouveau. Characteristic of all his works was the eclectic use of this stylistic device.

The Vajdahunyad Castle (now Hungarian Agricultural Museum ), a complex of buildings for the Budapest Millennium Exhibition 1896, which combines elements of numerous important Hungarian buildings and was one of his first and most famous works. In Budapest the 1900s Alpár received a number of orders for Bank building, and enjoyed among architects soon earned a reputation as a specialist in designs of this kind as an architect of many public buildings, as well as large tenements and commercial buildings affects his influence today on the Budapest cityscape.

Buildings (selection)

Honors

After the funeral, it was decided for him a monument to build, which was built in 1931 by the Hungarian sculptor Eduard Telcs before the historic ensemble in the City Park. Since 1958 is by the Hungarian construction industry, " Ignatius Alpár Medal" awarded annually to outstanding architects.

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