Milan Michal Harminc

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Milan Michal Harminc

Milan Michal Harminc (born October 7, 1869 in Kulpin near Bački Petrovac , then Austria-Hungary , now Serbia ; † July 5, 1964 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia , now Slovakia ) was a Slovak architect .

Career

Main building of the Slovak National Museum

Harminc was born to a Slovak family in the village of Kulpin in the then Hungarian Bács-Bodrog County . He completed elementary school in his hometown, after which he attended a German school in Bulkes (now Maglić) from 1881 to 1882 and a German commercial academy in Neusatz between 1882 and 1883.

In 1886 he settled in Budapest and worked for the Neuschloss company (1886–1890) and for architects Ján Nepomuk Bobula (1893–1894) and Albert Schickedanz (1894–1897) and was with the latter, among other things, on preparations for the Hungarian Millennium Celebration employed in 1896. He also joined the Slovak Association in Budapest in 1887 and was associated with the Slovak national movement. In 1897 Harminc founded his own architectural office in Budapest and designed mainly private and residential houses in Budapest, in today's Slovakia, with a focus on Turz and Liptau counties .

In 1904 he married Anna Holcová from Sillein . The marriage had three children. In 1908 he passed an architectural exam and in 1915 moved to St. Nicholas in Liptov . From 1922 until his retirement in 1951, he worked as a lone architect in Bratislava , where he died on July 5, 1964. He is buried in the Gaistor cemetery .

Works (selection)

Private and residential houses

  • Zimany House, Dolný Kubín (1902)
  • Slovak house of Aurel Stodola , Liptovský Mikuláš (1902)
  • Markovič House, Nové Mesto nad Váhom (1904)
  • J. Kohút House, Martin (1908)
  • Pazzeti House, Liptovský Mikuláš (1916)
  • Fábry House, Bratislava (1924)
  • Lengyel Villa, Nový Smokovec (1931)
  • Fuleková House, Prievidza (1945)

Public buildings

Szontágh Sanatorium in Nový Smokovec, today the Hotel Royal Palace
  • Slovak bank in Ružomberok (1902)
  • Building of the Slovak National Museum in Martin (1905–1908)
  • Building of the Tatra banka financial institution in Martin (1910)
  • Szontágh Sanatorium in Nový Smokovec (1917–1925)
  • Lacko-Pálka tannery in Liptovský Mikuláš (1915–1916)
  • Agricultural Museum in Bratislava, today the main building of the Slovak National Museum (1925–1928)
  • Renovation of the Carlton-Savoy Hotel in Bratislava (1928)
  • new building of the Slovak National Museum in Martin (1931)
  • Sanatorium in Nový Smokovec (1934)
  • House of the Slovak League with a cinema, Bratislava (1934–1936)
  • Spa house in Lúčky (1934–1938)
  • Sanatorium in Nová Polianka (1941)
  • Brothers of Mercy Hospital in Skalica (1941–1944)

schools

Churches

Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Černová

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architect MMHarminc tvoril aj ako samouk , Turiec Online (Slovak) from July 5, 2014, accessed on August 11, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Harminc, Milan Michal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulpin near Bački Petrovac
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1964
Place of death Bratislava