Fabó Beáta - Gall, Anthony: I came from the East to a City of Great Palaces. Károly Kós, the early years 1907-1914 (Budapest, 2013)

Influences

1908: ‘This summer my parents went home to Cluj without me, as my jobs would not allow me to join them. During the day I would work at Maróti's, while in the evening or even late into the night I would work at home on my private projects - the plans of the parsonage in Óbuda and the church in Zebegény (including the 1:100 drawings) and the budget calculations for my parents' new house, whose plans had been completed by that time!K0S 1991:84

M Places in Budapest that played a part in Károly Kós' life A map from 1912

BFL XV.lő.e. 251/173

Í : Places where Kós lived in Budapest Buildings Kós planned y>: Schooling, workplaces, social life

BUDAPEST

SZÉKES FŐVÁROS

TÉRKÉPE

PHARUS RENDSZERÉBEN MÉRET-AR ANY 1:15000

‘It was in the year 1908 that I took to spending my time at the café. Not any one of the numerous coffee houses of Budapest, though, but the one and only Baross Café on József Bld. I would pass by the building on my way home and besides it was quiet, free of Gypsy music. But its greatest attraction was the colourful company made up of the agile, lively people of Budapest who had taken up residence there and had their own table reserved.

Writers, theatre people, painters, applied artists and architects would sit there... Dezső Kosztolányi, Frigyes Karinthy, Aurél Kárpáti, Ernő Abrahám, György Szemere, Sándor Pethő, Géza Csáth and Móricz Zsigmond, also György Kürthy and Pethes, Bartos and Mariska Vízvári, Sándor Hevesi és László Márkus és Bálint Fehérkúthy, Sándor Muhits, Lajos Gulácsi and Ödön Márffy, Béla Jánszky and Dezső Zrumeczky, Majoros and JózsefMocsai... This table would become the one and only restingplace, a resort and lighthouse for my body and soul in the entire metropolis of Budapest. This keen-eyed folk would spot every last thing that the world of literature, art, theatre, society or politics produced. It was at this table that my eager eyes were opened to ever wider horizons, to see yet unknown and beckoning heights as well as chilling depths of the spiritual, intellectual world. It was there that I began to feel the tragically serious problems of the thrashing Hungarian life of the period’.KOS I991:93

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1912