Gyula Pártos

{{Short description|Hungarian architect (1845–1916)}}

{{Infobox architect

| name = Gyula Pártos

| image = File:Pártos Gyula.jpg

| caption = Gyula Pártos

| nationality = Hungarian

| birth_name = Julius Puntzmann

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1845|08|17}}

| birth_place = Apatin, Kingdom of Hungary

| death_date = {{Death date|df=yes|1916|12|22}}

| death_place = Budapest, Austria-Hungary

| alma_mater = TU Berlin, Berlin

| practice =

| significant_buildings = St. Stephen's Church, Kiskunfélegyháza
Royal Hungarian Vocational School of Mechanics and Watchmaking, Budapest

| spouse = Vittorina Bartolucci

| children =

}}

Gyula Pártos (born Julius Puntzmann, 17 August 1845 – 22 December 1916) was a Hungarian architect.[http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/index.html Pártos Gyula], Hungarian Electronic Library, retrieved 13 May 2012 {{in lang|hu}} Together with Ödön Lechner he designed a number of buildings in the typical Szecesszió (Art Nouveau) style of fin-de-siècle Hungary. He was the brother-in-law of the lawyer and politician Béla Pártos, the husband of opera singer Vittorina Bartolucci, and the father-in-law of composer and opera director Miklós Radnai.

Career

At the beginning of his career he studied under Antal Szkalnitzky in Buda, who was responsible for a large number of the monumental public buildings that shaped the city and its sister across the Danube, Pest, before the two cities merged in 1873. He then moved on to the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin), where he was a classmate of both Alajos Hauszmann and Ödön Lechner, and obtained a degree in architecture in 1870.

After graduation Pártos and Lechner established a fruitful partnership which lasted until 1896, crowned by their ultimate work, the design of the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts. Supposedly, Lechner was in charge of most of the artistic aspects of the practice, while Pártos took command of the organizational tasks. However, Pártos proved to be a capable designer in his own right, and a number of their works can be attributed wholly or nearly entirely to him, including St. Stephen's Church (1873–77) and Kalmár Chapel (1875–76), both in Kiskunfélegyháza; as well as the Bazaar of the Reformed Church in Kecskemét (1877).

Working independently after 1896, he received numerous commissions over the next 16 years in the capital as well as in Győr, Cegléd, and Bratislava (then still called Pozsony and part of the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Some of these designs followed in Lechner's footsteps but others reflect the historicism in which he was trained. He died in Budapest at age 71, two years after Lechner, in the midst of the First World War.

Works

Image:Kecskemet City Hall2.jpg

  • 1860-05: St. Stephen's Church and Carmelite Convent, Sombor, Serbia{{Cite web|url=https://www.ravnoplov.rs/somborska-karmelicanska-crkva-i-samostan/|title=SOMBORSKA KARMELIĆANSKA CRKVA I SAMOSTAN|website=ravnoplov.rs|language=Serbian|date=11 August 2018|accessdate=20 February 2023}}
  • 1871–72: Apartment building, Budapest, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky utca 43.Magyar életrajzi lexikon, i. h.
  • 1873–77: St. Stephen's Church, Kiskunfélegyháza, Szent István tér 3.
  • 1875–76: Kalmár Chapel, Kiskunfélegyháza, Móra Ferenc tér 17.{{Cite web|url=http://sbaotemplom.hu/index.php/en/introduction/6-kalmar-kapolna|title = Kalmár-kápolna}}
  • 1877: Bazaar of the Reformed Church, Kecskemét.
  • 1881–84: Szeged City Hall (with Ödön Lechner).
  • 1882: Sombor City Hall, Serbia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.025.rs/najprepoznatljiviji-simbol-grada/|title = Najprepoznatljivi simbol grada| date=11 October 2022 |language=Serbian}}
  • 1883: Milkó Palace, Szeged, Roosevelt Square 5 (with Ödön Lechner).{{Cite web|url=http://www.muemlekem.hu/muemlek/show/3494|title = Milkó-palota, Szeged}}
  • 1883–86: Drechsler Palace (also known as MÁV Hungarian Railway Pension House), Budapest, Andrássy út 25 (with Ödön Lechner).
  • 1885–86: Torontál County hall (today Zrenjanin City Hall) Zrenjanin, Serbia (with Ödön Lechner).
  • 1887: Rudolf cavalry barracks, Kecskemét (with Ödön Lechner).{{Cite web| title=A Szerb Antal Gimnázium épülete | language=hu | trans-title=The building of the Szerb Antal Gymnasium | url=http://www.szag.hu/weboldal/files/partosgyula/szag_partos_hkc.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125120338/http://www.szag.hu/weboldal/files/partosgyula/szag_partos_hkc.pdf | archive-date=2020-01-25}}
  • 1888–90: Thonet House, Budapest, Váci utca 11A (with Ödön Lechner).
  • 1891: Gymnasium of Srijemski Karlovci, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (today Sremski Karlovci, Serbia) (with Ödön Lechner).
  • 1891–96: Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest (with Ödön Lechner).
  • 1893: Szekszárd Hotel, Szekszárd, Garay tér 7 (with Ödön Lechner).{{Cite web|url=http://szekszardszallo.hu/garay-ter/|title=Garay tér | szekszardszallo.hu}}
  • 1893: Baja Savings Bank, (now the István Türr Museum building).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bajaimuzeum.hu/hu/turr-istvan-muzeum-2|title=Türr István Múzeum | Bajai Múzeum|access-date=2021-05-28|archive-date=2020-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722133913/https://www.bajaimuzeum.hu/hu/turr-istvan-muzeum-2|url-status=dead}}
  • 1893–97: Kecskemét City Hall, together with Ödön Lechner.
  • 1896: Szekszárd High School.
  • 1900–01: Royal Hungarian State Mechanical Clock Vocational School (now the Kandó Kálmán College of Electrical Engineering as part of the University of Óbuda), Budapest, Tavaszmező utca 15.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nefmi.gov.hu/felsooktatas/budapesti-muszaki/budapesti-muszaki-090803-5|title=Nemzeti Erőforrás Minisztérium | Budapesti Műszaki Főiskola - Tavaszmező utcai építkezés|date=8 October 2002|access-date=28 May 2021|archive-date=22 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722134530/http://www.nefmi.gov.hu/felsooktatas/budapesti-muszaki/budapesti-muszaki-090803-5|url-status=dead}}
  • 1903: Headquarters of the Post and Telegraph Directorate, Poszony (today Bratislava).{{cite web | url=https://emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk/emlekhelyek/postapalota/ | title=Emlékhelyek a Felvidéken » Postapalota }}
  • 1903: Cegléd High School (today Kossuth High School), Cegléd, Rákóczi út 46.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kozterkep.hu/4532/kossuth-gimnazium-epuletdiszei|title=Kossuth Gimnázium épületdíszei}}
  • 1903–05: Black Eagle Hotel, Hódmezővásárhely, Kossuth tér 3.{{Cite web|url=https://vasarhelyilokalpatriotak.blog.hu/2014/10/21/a_fekete_sas_tortenete|title = A Fekete Sas története [5.]}}
  • 1905–06: Girls' Orphanage and Education Institute of the National Association of Hungarian Women, today: Antal Szerb High School, Budapest, Batthyány Ilona utca 12.
  • 1907: Italian Embassy, Budapest, Stefánia út 95.{{Cite web|url=https://ambbudapest.esteri.it/ambasciata_budapest/hu/ambasciata/la_sede|title=La sede|access-date=2021-05-28|archive-date=2021-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420202220/https://ambbudapest.esteri.it/ambasciata_budapest/hu/ambasciata/la_sede|url-status=dead}}
  • 1910–11: Royal Hungarian State Women's Industrial School (now the András Jelky Secondary School of Applied Arts), Budapest, Rákóczi tér 4–5.{{Cite web|url=http://jelky.hu/iskolatortenet/|title = Iskolatörténet · Jelky András Iparművészeti Szakgimnázium}}
  • 1910–12: Elementary school on Kálmán Street in Tóth (today the 9th District József Attila Primary School and Primary School of Art), Budapest, Kálmán utca 35.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jamisuli.hu/iskolatortenet/|title = Iskolatörténet - Bp. IX. Kerületi József Attila Általános Iskola és Alapfokú Művészeti Iskola}}
  • Undated: Theater, Sombor, Serbia.
  • Undated: Civic school, Košice, Moyzesova street.{{Cite web|url=https://epiteszforum.hu/a-foutcan-tul-kassa-epiteszetenek-kis-tukre|title = A főutcán túl - Kassa építészetének kis tükre}}

Gallery

Sombor-Catholic-Church.jpg|Catholic Church of St. Stephen and Carmelite Convent, Sombor, Serbia

Szt István plébániatemplom Kiskunfélegyháza.JPG|St. Stephen's Church, Kiskunfélegyháza

Attila József elementary school by Gyula Pártos (1910). - Ferencváros.JPG|József Attila Primary School and Primary School of Art, Budapest

Sombor (Zombor) - town hall.JPG|Sombor City Hall, Serbia

Museum_of_Applied_Arts_(Budapest).jpg|Museum of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Múzeum), Budapest

Jelky András Clothing Vocational School and High School. - Rákóczi Square, Budapest.JPG|Jelky András Clothing Vocational School and High School, Budapest

Gimnázium, nyugati szárny és átjáró részlet, 2019 Cinkota.jpg|Girls' Orphanage and Education Institute of the National Association of Hungarian Women, Budapest

Óbuda University, 15 Tavaszmező Street, 2016 Józsefváros.jpg|Royal Hungarian State Mechanical Clock Vocational School, Budapest

Cegled-Gimn.jpg|Főgimnázium, Cegléd

Ambasciata d'Italia - Budapest.jpg|Italian Embassy, Budapest

Kecskemet City Hall - 1.jpg|Kecskemet City Hall

Maison Thonet, Váci utca Budapest.jpg|Thonet House, Budapest

Budapest (55) (13229541705).jpg|Drechsler Palace, Budapest

Županijska palata u Zrenjaninu.jpg|Zrenjanin City Hall, Zrenjanin, Serbia

Karlovačka gimnazija 15.7.2018 014.jpg|Karlovci Gymnasium, Sremski Karlovci, Serbia

137 3728.JPG|Headquarters of the Post and Telegraph Directorate, Bratislava, Slovakia

Fekete Sas Szálló. - Csongrád megye, Hódmezővásárhely, Kossuth tér 3.jpg|Black Eagle Hotel, Hódmezővásárhely

Kalmár kápolna.JPG|Kalmár Chapel, Kiskunfélegyháza

Bibliography

  • [http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/egyeb/lexikon/eletrajz/html/ABC11587/11846.htm Hungarian Biographical Lexicon (Magyar életrajzi lexikon, i. h.)]
  • [http://resolver.pim.hu/auth/PIM67447 Biographical Index]

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