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The man who gave Budapest colour: Ödön Lechner

Why do we love Ödön Lechner so much? What is it about his buildings, with their winding tendrils, ornate tiles in the shapes of flowers and leaves, their shock of colour, their façades and rooflines which are so like glimpsing inside a fairy-tale, that inspire such awe and reverence? How could one man capture such grandeur in his creations? Everyone who has spent a little time in Budapest is familiar with the Grand Master of Art Nouveau, without whose buildings the city would be a little more grey and unimagined.

Stop any local on the street, ask them to name three Hungarian architects and Ödön Lechner is bound to be on the list. He takes his place alongside Alajos Hauszmann and Miklós Ybl as a genius of Magyar architecture, and it is he alone who helped the whole country embrace that special brand of Hungarian Art Nouveau known here as Szecesszió.


Walking around Budapest, his buildings grab the eye – and the imagination – and nearly convince us that we are in a magical world, rather than a major metropolis. This f

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Lechner, Ödön

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    The Tragic Genius of Architect Ödön Lechner

    Even if you aren’t especially interested in architecture, there are three buildings in Budapest that will likely make you stop whatever you were doing and take a moment to observe. All three were designed by Ödön Lechner (1845-1914), one of the seminal architects of Hungary. Lechner dismissed the Revival Style that defined 19th-century architecture as being thoughtless imitation, whether neo-Gothic, neo-Renaissance, or neo-Baroque. In fact, he didn’t think much of Hungary’s historical building stock. The Gothic style never reached the heights it did in France or Germany, he argued, and the Ottoman and Habsburg occupations impaired the growth of the Renaissance and the Baroque. But it was time for change.

    Lechner came of age after the 1867 creation of Austria-Hungary, a period of rapid economic growth coupled with strong political nationalism. Artists and architects actively explored ways in which a national style might be established.

    “How does a national style form? By shaping the great European art movements with the natural instinc

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