Voit Pál: Barokk tervek és vázlatok (1650-1760) (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 1980)

cloister, the relationship of all these with the Danube and Budapest—Vienna highway, justly present him as an efficient representative of grandiose civic design. Pilgram's church for the Redstar Cross Order in Pozsony — built in 1743, demolished in 1797 — is shown by the surveys of Károly Römisch, a master-mason of Chamber, of Bohemian origin, who settled down in Hungary. Though the drawing is far from the standard of Pilgram's graphic art, it truly conveys the excellent Viennese master's compositional principles and characteristics (Cat. Nos. 121—124.). The late 18th century copies of Pilgram's plans for the Premonstratensian monastery in Klosterbruck (Louka) were found in the estate of Alajos Hauszmann, professor of the Budapest Polytechnic, architect of the Royal Palace of Buda at the turn of the 19—20th centuries (Cat. Nos. 125—129.). Some original plans of the facade, guarded in the archives of Brünn, were attributed to J. L. v. Hildebrandt by Bruno Grimschitz in his great monography on Hildebrandt. In the actual fact, when F. A. Pilgram was commissioned with the design by the Premonstratensians in 1748, Hildebrandt had been dead for three years. However it was known that after Pilgram's death in 1761, the chief architect of Chamber, Franz Anton Hillebrandt continued the work there. No doubt Pilgram's original plans got to his hands this way. From him, or rather from the Building Office of the Chamber, the planning documents were transferred to the collection of the school "K. u. K. Josephus Polytechnicum in Ofen", predecessor of the József Nádor Technical University in Budapest. Hauszmann must have found them in this collection and used, in some respect, at the design of the present Royal Palace in Buda. Beside their peculiar wanderings, the Klosterbruck-series are significant documents as they contain gound-plans some of which facilitate the reconstruction of the demolished mediaeval church and cloisters on the ground-floor. It was the same way that Hauszmann, or rather the Hungarian Museum of Architecture acquired the series of designs made for a fortified castle, destined for an unknown place, which — knowing his works of similar solution — might also be copies of F. A. Pilgram's designs (Cat. Nos. 130-133.). The exhibition presents some surveys and rebuilding designs prepared for the most part after the dissolution of the Jesuit Order. These documents have significance for the history of architecture, as many of the buildings they represent have been destroyed or have lost their original character (Cat. Nos. 137 — 143.). There is a permanent risk of decay and loss, therefore the display of "designs and sketches" is very much incomplete and random. It may offer — however — a certain view of the work, technical skill and art of the masters and artists active in Hungary, and it may also reflect the artistic and intellectual standard of this country in a period up to 1760. Pél Voit