Mihály Pollack

Portrait of the architect Mihály Pollack, oil on canvas, around 1820

Mihály Pollack , also Michael Pollack (born August 30, 1773 in Vienna , † January 5, 1855 in Pest ) was an Austro-Hungarian architect.

biography

Mihály Pollack first learned from his father, who was a master builder, and then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Hetzendorf von Hohenberg . In 1794 he moved to Milan to live with his half-brother, the architect Leopold Pollack. There he found work at the Milan Cathedral . In 1798 he moved to Pest, the then still independent district of Budapest , to work on the Evangelical Lutheran Church .

Pollack was a leading member of the Pest Building Beautification Committee (Szépítő Bizottmány) in 1808 and thus played a significant role in the design of the townscape at that time. He was the construction manager of the German theater in Pest. Its main activity was in the construction of palaces and town houses in the city and as country houses. His style is a late baroque, which merges into classicism. The Hungarian National Museum and the Ludovika Academy go back to his plans for the public buildings in Budapest . Other buildings are mansions in Alcsút and Dég in Fejér County .

His son from his second marriage to Magdalena Eger (1789-1880) was the Lieutenant Field Marshal Alexander Pollack Ritter von Klumberg .

Works (selection)

• Evangelical Church (Deák tér) in Budapest, 1799–1808
• Sándor Palace in Budapest, 1803–1805
• Festetics Palace in Dég, 1810–1815
• Alcsút Castle in Alcsút, 1819–1827
• Ludovika Academy in Budapest, 1831–1835
• Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, 1837–1847
• Apartment building József-Attila-Str. 6 in Budapest V.
• Apartment building Kazinczystr. 56 in Budapest VII.
• Zichy Castle (Soponya)
• Zichy Castle (Vajta)

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  Evangelical Church on Deák Square

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  Festetics Castle

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  Ludovika Academy

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  Hungarian National Museum

Awards

Mihály Pollack's tomb in the Tahitótfalu cemetery

In his honor the technical faculty of the University of Pécs was named Pollack Mihály Technical Faculty when it was founded in 1970 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pollack Mihály Faculty of Engineering, August 13, 2009, accessed December 23, 2009

literature

• Z. Fallenbüchl:  Pollack Mihály. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 172.

Web links

Commons : Mihály Pollack  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Artportal (Hungarian)