Kálmán Giergl
Kálmán Giergl ( born June 29, 1863 in Pest, † September 10, 1954 in Nógrádverőce in Pest county ) was an architect and an important representative of eclecticism in Hungary. He belonged to the family of artists - Györgyi Giergl.
Family background
The family with Tyrolean roots have long been known for the artistic skills of its members. The father Henrik Giergl (* 1827, † 1871) was a famous glass artist. Géza Györgyi (* 1851, † 1934), a cousin Giergls was involved as an architect in the expansion of the castle palace and the K building of the Technical University. Another cousin, Kálmán Györgyi (* 1860, † 1930) was craft artist and director of Országos Magyar Iparműveszeti Társulat ( "State Society for Applied Arts ").
Journey
Giergl studied at the Technical University in Budapest and at the University of Arts in Berlin. He began his career in Berlin at the Martin Gropius and Heino forging. On his return to Hungary he was assistant Alajos Hauszmann, in whose office he worked at the Technical University. There also the cooperation with Flóris basket, with whom he important projects carried out jointly in the following years began. Hauszmann involved the two in the planning of large orders with one, including the courthouse in the Alkotmány utca, the New York Palace, the Palace of Justice and the expansion of the castle palace.
In 1893, the two young architects Hauszmanns left office and worked together as partners. The first significant joint work was the seat of the newspaper Pesti Hírlap. They designed the pavilion for the exhibition on the occasion of the Millennium celebrations of the millennium of the Kingdom of Hungary, which were later demolished.
At the Pest bridgehead of Erzsébet bridge they built in 1901, named after the Duchess Klotild twin palaces and a year later the Király Bérház ( "Royal tenement "). Also in 1902 they applied successfully to the construction of the new building of the Academy of Music at the Liszt Ferenc tér, which is the most important building of the two architects.
In the next few years they built the eye clinic in the Mária utca út and the Department of Surgery and Internal Medicine in the Üllő. In 1911, the luxury was Áruház on Vörösmarty tér completed.
Giergl undertook many trips to Europe, America and the Middle and Far East. His major art collection is housed in the Museum of Applied Arts.