- Imre Steindl
Imre Steindl (
October 29 ,1839 in Pest –August 31 1902 inBudapest ) was a Hungarian architect.He graduated at the Technical University of Budapest and the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . He was a teacher of the Budapest Technical University from 1869. He was elected honorary and corresponding member of theRoyal Institute of British Architects in 1891 and was admitted to theHungarian Academy of Sciences in 1898.His architectural interest was initially historicism, then
Renaissance andGothic style .He is most famous for the
Hungarian Parliament Building built in Neo-gothic style, but his other outstanding works include the Saint Elisabeth Church as well as the reconstruction of the St. Elisabeth Church and theVajdahunyad Castle .ee also
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Hungarian Parliament Building Main works
*New Town hall, Budapest (1870 – 1872, Budapest V., Váci u. 62 – 64.),
*Commercial Trade and Industrial Bank (1872)
*Vajdahunyad castle rebuilding (1870 – 1874) - carried out after the original designer, Ferenc Schulcz's, death
*Szeged , Franciscan church remodelling (1876)
*Kassa , St Elizabeth Episcopal House remodelling
*University Buildings on Múzeum körút, District VIII (1880-1883)
*Máriafalva (today inBurgenland ), St Mary of Resurrection reconstruction inNeo-Gothic style (1882-1899) withZsolnay tiled main altar
*St Elizabeth Church, Rózsák tere, Budapest District VII, (1893–1901)External links
* [http://rozsaktere.uw.hu/ Website of the Saint Elisabeth Church] (click "lejátszás")
* [http://www.earth-photography.com/Countries/Hungary/Budapest_subgallery/Hungary_Budapest_Rozsaktere.html The Square of Roses, where the above church is located]
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