Béla Lajta

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Gravestone on the "Kozma utcai izraelita temető"

Béla Lajta (until 1907 Béla Leitersdorfer ; born January 23, 1873 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died October 12, 1920 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian architect .

Life

Béla Leitersdorfer was born in Óbuda into a family of textile traders and studied architecture at the Technical University of Budapest with Imre Steindl and Alajos Hauszmann until 1896 . With a travel grant, he went to Rome and other European cities for a year and a half . In Berlin with Alfred Messel and Ernst von Ihne , Helsinki with Eliel Saarinen and London with Richard Norman Shaw , he completed his training and returned to Budapest.

In 1899 he won the competition to design a synagogue in Lipótváros , but the construction was never realized. His first work in 1900 was the Bárd music store on Kossuth Lajos utca in Budapest. He had various projects with Ödön Lechner , in particular the Schmidl family's mausoleum in the New Jewish Cemetery on Kozma Street . In Budapest he created a large number of buildings in Art Nouveau style , in Hungary under the name Budapest Szecesszió , one of the well-known works was the house at Szervita tér 5 in 1910, where the Rózsavölgyi & Tarsa music shop moved in, and the company "Leitersdorfer und Sohn" above it. as well as a hotel pension on the upper floors. In 1909 he built the Music Hall "Parisiana" in the Paulay Ede utca in the Art Deco style , which still exists today as the "New Theater" (Új színház). He designed the stage set for a production of Karl Goldmark's opera Die Königin von Saba in the theater season 1914/1915.

In the course of the assimilation and Magyarization of the Hungarian Jews, Leitersdorfer was given the family name Lajta in 1907; he had signed the Schmidl tomb in 1904 as Leitersdorfer.

  • Új színház (New Theater)

  • Kereskedelmi szaközépiskola, Higher Commercial School in the 8th district

  • Music publisher Rózsavölgyi és Társa

  • Fire station in Senta

literature

  • Ferenc Vámos: Lajta Béla , Budapest Akadémiai Kiadó, 1970 (hu)
  • Marco Biraghi (Ed.): Béla Lajta, ornamento e modernità , Milan: Electa: 1999 (it)
  • Rudolf Klein, The Hungarian Jews and Architectural Style in: Anna Szalai (Ed.): In the Land of Hagar: The Jews of Hungary; History, Society and Culture . Tel Aviv, 2002, pp. 165-172
  • János Gerle; Tamás Csáki: Lajta Béla . Budapest: Holnap Kiadó, 2013 (hu)

Web links

Commons : Béla Lajta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ historical picture of the Rózsavölgyi house near vandoriskola, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Lajta, Béla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leitersdorfer, Béla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1920
Place of death Vienna