Frigyes Schoolk

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Frigyes Schulek ( Friedrich Schulek ; born November 19, 1841 in Pest , Austrian Empire , † September 5, 1919 in Balatonlelle ) was a Hungarian architect.

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Frigyes Schulek was the son of the businessman and politician Agoston Schulek. His younger brother was the medic Vilmos Schulek ( Wilhelm Schulek ). In 1851 and 1852 he learned German in Lőcse , today's Levoča in Slovakia. He was taken with the architecture of Budapest and dealt with drawings. During the school holidays he worked as a bricklayer. He also worked as an agent of the privileged Imperial and Royal First Danube Steamship Company . After 1857 he also worked as a language teacher in Debreczin .

In 1860 he studied at the Buda Polytechnic , but then went to Vienna, where he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1867 with Friedrich von Schmidt and Eduard van der Nüll and also took part in study trips. Schulek thus worked on the restoration of the Regensburg Cathedral , which later also benefited him as chairman of the Wiener Bauhütte . He also attended the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867. When he returned to Vienna, he took part in the planning of the Brigittakirche and the Church of Maria vom Siege . He spent 1868 in Hungary before taking a study trip to Italy in 1869 and 1870.

He then worked briefly in the office of his fellow student Imre Steindl . In 1871 he became a teacher at the ku Landeszeichenlehranstalt . He held this post for the next 31 years. Here he also made friends with the sculptor Izsó and the painter Bertalan Székely .

After Steindl's death in 1902 he became head of the department for medieval architecture at the Technical University in Budapest. His students included Károly Kós and other members of the Fiatalok group .

Schulek retired in 1914.

In addition to teaching, the focus was on monument preservation. From 1872 he was an architect of the first independent Hungarian organization, Privisorischen Commission of Monuments (from 1882 National Commission of Monuments ). Its restorations corresponded to both the style-appropriate reconstruction and the arbitrary addition.

Fisherman's Bastion in Budapest

One of the most important works was the reconstruction of the Church of Our Lady in Budapest. He originally wanted to expand this church to two towers, but ultimately left it with one tower. The vestibule, the spire and the color scheme inside were added. F. Schulek also played a major role in the "dismantling" of St. George's Church in Ják (1896–1904).

Own planning of buildings was rather rare. These were mostly about churches or magnificent buildings that he designed in the neo-Romanesque style. In doing so, he continued the later period of the Viennese masters. His main work is the Fisherman's Bastion in Budapest.

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SURNAME Schulek, Frigyes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulek, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Pest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1919
Place of death Balatonlelle , Hungary