Imre Steindl

Imre Steindl in a portrait by Sigmund Pollák (1838–1888), 1884

Imre Steindl (also Emerich Steindl or Emmerich Steindl ) (born October 29, 1839 in Pest , Austrian Empire , † August 31, 1902 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ) was a Hungarian architect and university professor .

Life

Steindl studied at the Technical University of Budapest and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna ( Friedrich Schmidt School of Architecture ).

In 1870 the k. Josefs-Polytechnikum in Ofen (through systemization ) university status, and Steindl, who had already been a teaching assistant at the institute , was appointed head of the second chair for architecture. In 1871 he was appointed a member of the Hungarian State Council for Fine Arts . After the death of the architect Franz Schulz (Ferenc Schulcz, 1838–1870), Steindl headed the restoration work on Hunedoara Castle in what is now Romania until 1874 , where he was able to show Archduke Joseph (1833–1905) construction progress on October 16, 1874 . In 1879, together with the architect Alois Hausmann , he took over the planning of the new political technical center (whose main building was completed by Hausmann in 1909).

In addition to membership in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1899, he was also a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects . Steindl was buried at the Kerepesi temető in Budapest.

Steindl left a legacy of three million crowns . In 1907 , the bankruptcy was opened over the assets of his daughter and her husband, the former head of the Hont Béla Horváth County (1859–1940). In 1916 parts of the house (on two properties in Pest) were transferred from Steindl's widow Euphonie (née Mirosavlyević) to her underage grandsons Margit and Emerich Horváth.

Works (selection)

Parliament building in Budapest

• 1877–1896: (on the recommendation of Friedrich Schmidt) restoration of the Kaschau Cathedral (today Slovakia )
• 1879–1898: Restoration of the Bartfelder Domes (Roman Catholic Basilica of St. Aegidius ) (today Slovakia )
• 1880-1882: k. Hungarian Veterinary Institute , Budapest
• 1889: Restoration of the sanctuary of the Inner City Parish Church , Budapest
• 1885–1904: Parliament building in Budapest
• 1882–1899: Reconstruction of the Gothic church, new interior: Church of the Assumption of Mary in Mariasdorf (today Austria )
• 1893–1900: Parish Church of St. Elisabeth in District VII (Erzsébetváros) in Budapest

Awards

• 1864 Certificate of Recognition at the Gundel Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Category: Designs of Private Buildings; together with Oskar Laske and Franz Segenschmid , 1839–1888)
• 1865 Füger medal of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Category: Best design of a building in a noble style of own invention)
• Badge of Honor Pro Litteris et Artibus
• Franz Joseph Order
• 1900 Gold Medal , Group II, Class 10: Architecture, Paris World Exhibition (second Hungarian in the same class: Ignaz Alpár )
• 2019: Name of an asteroid after him: (150081) Steindl .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Steindl, Emerich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 62 f. ( Digitized version ).
• J (ózsef) Sisa:  Steindl Imre. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 164 f. (Direct links on p. 164 , p. 165 ).

Web links

Commons : Imre Steindl  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ^ University professors and award winners , Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , May 5, 1883, p. 162, accessed on December 17, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Imre Steindl , accessed on January 17, 2010.
3. ^ Extract from the Hungarian official gazette. In:  Fremd -Blatt , Abend-Blatt, No. 319/1870 (XXIV. Year), November 18, 1870, p. 2 (unpaginated), bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ Theater and Art. (...) The Hungarian Provincial Council (...). In:  Fremd -Blatt , Morgen-Blatt, No. 180/1871 (XXV. Year), July 1, 1871, p. 6, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
5. ↑ Hungary. (...) Budapest, April 17th. The Budapest Commercial and Exchange Court (…). In:  Fremd -Blatt , No. 89/1907, April 18, 1907, p. 10, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
6. ↑ paraphrases. In:  Pester Lloyd , Morgenblatt, No. 73/1916 (LXIII. Volume), March 13, 1916, p. 6, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
7. ↑ Der Architekt 3, 1897, p. 31. Miscellaneous. (...) The Kaschau Cathedral. In:  Grazer Volksblatt , No. 204/1896 (XXIXth volume), September 6, 1896, p. 6 (unpaginated), middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
8. ↑ From the province. (...) Inauguration of the Bartfelder Domes. In:  Pester Lloyd , No. 247/1898 (XLV. Year), October 13, 1898, p. 6 (unpaginated), center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
9. ↑ Univet - Our Faculty - Introduction - Building on István Street . In: univet.hu , January 20, 2014, accessed on November 21, 2015.
10. ↑ The architect 4, 1898, plate 66. The new parish church in the VII district of the capital. In:  Pester Lloyd , No. 266/1900 (XLVII. Volume), November 6, 1900, p. 10 (unpaginated), center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
11. ↑ Art Notes. Distribution of school prizes at the Academy of Fine Arts. In:  Blätter für Theater, Musik und Kunst , No. 38/1865 (XI. Year), May 12, 1865, p. 152, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .
12. ↑ Little Chronicle. (…) Academy of visual art. In:  Die Presse , Abendblatt, No. 118/1866 (XIXth year), May 1, 1866, p. 1 (unpaginated), bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
13. ↑ The Hungarian Prämiirten at the Paris World Exhibition. In:  Pester Lloyd , No. 201/1900 (XLVII. Volume), 23 August 1900, p. 6 (unpaginated), top left. (Online at ANNO ). .