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
H The 70 year old Frigyes Schulek drawing by Andor Dudits Művészet, 1911.10. sz. HI The Fishermans' Bastion photo by György Klösz György BFL Fotótár THE ONSET OF KÓS' CAREER Frigyes Schulek and Károly Kós Frigyes Schulek (1841-1919) taught Medieval Architecture to Kós and his fellow students. Kós liked Schulek a lot and chose him as his master in the 4th year of his studies. He received from Schulek a send-off for life, both personally and professionally. 7 can surely say that not only is Frigyes Schulek a truly great artist, but personally he was a very-very good teacher to me. I still recall with gratitude the one or two hours I would spend in his study receiving insights as an architect in the form of his teachings that I couldn't have possibly acquired in any other way’.K0S 1991:46-‘My enquiries revealed that all my colleagues had found positions for themselves - those from Pest went to work for planning offices or construction companies or offices, where they had had their positions secured well in advance in most cases. /.../1 heard that my colleague Ödön Hochholzer was placed with the National Museum and Library Authority by our master, Frigyes Schulek, so I mustered all my courage and with a somewhat shy attitude knocked on the door of the study of my ex-professor in Esterházy Street./.../ I won't beat about the bush -1 have indeed secured a position for your colleague in that office, but I have no intention of helping you get one there or at any other similar place. /...// won't help you become a civil servant. It is your duty to fight to become an independent designing architect. /.../Just keep trying and don't worry. Should you not get a suitable offer within two weeks, come and see me again. Good-bye’. I did indeed keep try ing for a week, visiting everyone and asking about. I was already about to play my last ace and ask Elek Lippichfor some assistance, but eventually there was no need. I received a message from Móric Pogány left to me with the porter of the university and saying he had heard I was after some work and he was in the position to offer me some! K0S ml: 69~71 In the office of Móric Pogány, Autumn, 1907 - Spring, 1908 ‘But most of all I was satisfied with Móric Pogány, as it was him, apartfrom Béla Lajta, whom I considered the most talented architect from the preceding generation, who had the calling to find the right path to resolve or at least approximate the realisation of the Hungarian stylistic efforts in architecture. I believed that I had found in him the architect I could learn the most and the bestfrom’. K0S 199h 72~74 In the office of Géza Maróti, March-August, 1908 ‘Sculptor Géza Maróti offered me a full-time job for 250 crowns a month. 7 would take Rintli's offer (reference toMaróti's originalfamily name, Rintl) without hesitation’, my master said without thinking ‘because I myself am in no position at the moment to make a similar offer, what with my own office producing no profit, just loss’. Géza Maróti was a rather fashionable, affluent sculptor, who did ornamentations for buildings. At the time he was also a sculptor instructor at the university, (where I had attended his course myself), and also at the School of Applied Arts. Besides, he would take on architectural jobs too and was remarkably successful in this field - within certain parameters’. KOS1991:82~83-H Géza Maróti, who taught drawing to Kós at University drawing by Ferenc Helbing private collection HI Unrealised design for the main Entrance to the Zoo, Géza Maróti, September 1910. XV.17.d.328KT szór 1/24-3 50
