Paul Ligeti

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House at Napraforgó utca 15 in Budapest, based on plans by Paul Ligeti, 1931

Paul Ligeti (Hungarian Pál Ligeti ) (born May 29, 1885 in Budapest ; † June 23, 1941 ibid) was a Hungarian architect and writer.

Life

Ligeti studied architecture at the Palatine Joseph University in Budapest. In 1903, Ligeti's graphic works were exhibited in the Hungarian National Art Salon. Ligeti has been planning and building houses since 1911, initially mainly apartment buildings, later also villas and z. B. a houseboat. In the 1920s he ran his own architectural office with several employees.

From 1929 Ligeti and his pupil Farkas Molnár , who had taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar for several years , built houses in Budapest in the style of international modernism. In 1931 they founded a joint architectural office. With the Deley Villa at Mihály ut 11 , they designed the first building in the new modern style in Hungary. Together with others, they also founded and organized the Hungarian section of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne .

In 1923 Ligeti published a book in Hungary called Uj Pantheon felé (German To a new pantheon ). A translated and expanded version of the book was published in Germany in 1931 under the title Der Weg aus dem Chaos. An interpretation of world events from the rhythm of art development at Callwey Verlag in Munich . Its director, Karl Baur, was fascinated by Ligeti's theory.

Ligeti describes in his book, which was well received at the time of its publication, the human and cultural history as proceeding in large waves. He relied on the historical interpretations of Karl Marx and Oswald Spengler , but rejected the latter's cultural pessimism. Rather, after the decline of art, he saw a time of global style synthesis approaching.

Fonts

  • Új Pantheon felé , Budapest 1926 (German for a new pantheon ).
  • Through the History of Art to New Architecture , Budapest 1930.
  • The way out of chaos. An interpretation of world events from the rhythm of art development , Munich 1931.
  • A művészet történelmen keresztül az új építészethez , Budapest 1934 (German: Through Art History to New Architecture ).

literature

proof

  1. ↑ Lajos Namenyi in: Hazai Krónika, third born, No. 5, pp 338-352..
  2. ↑ See architectural theory in the 20th century. A critical anthology , ed. v. Ákos Moravánszky, Vienna 2003, p. 25.
  3. ↑ Cf. Rajesh Heynickx: Obscure (d) Modernism: The Aesthetics of the Architect Pal Ligeti , in: Modernist Cultures, 3 (2), pp. 139–153, here p. 6.
  4. ↑ See Karl Baur: Zeitgeist and History. An attempt at an interpretation , Munich 1978, pp. 9-12.
personal data
SURNAME Ligeti, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ligeti, Pál (Hungarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian architect and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1941
Place of death Budapest