Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

the first poster in Finland, and he was the one who laid the foundations of his country’s world-famous industrial design. The furniture and other objects of daily use - carpets, curtains, glassware, etc. — in his studio built in Rouvesi were of his own design.

"They had chafed against the Swedish and the Russian yoke for a long time,” reads the obituary written by Thorockai Wigand in 1931, "but they had preserved the symbols of the ancient national pagan altar for centuries in defiance of the de-nationalising efforts made by those two states. It was [.1.1 the sacred living torch of that altar which Gallen ignited with his art.”

In 1908 Gallen lodged in the Hotel Fiume by the Danube (12 Lánchíd utca, District I). A few years later the building was marked with a plaque by the municipality of Budapest, but the hotel was destroyed in the war. At a distance from here on a slab of stone in a patch of greenery outside No. 13 was placed, in the spirit of Finnish-Hungarian friendship, a relief portrait made by Walter Madarassy in 1978 to proclaim, in a bilingual inscription, the memory of our "painter-relative".

Tradition and Reinforced Concrete

The memory of Aladár Árkay is not kept alive by the obligatory limestone slab on a building he designed but rather on a slender column next to the City Manor Church (5 Csaba utca, District XII). According to the inscription girdling the column, the master architect died in February of 1932. The grateful congregation of the City Manor had the Árkays to thank for their churches — both the smaller fortress-like, porticoed one exuding a Transylvanian atmosphere hidden among the trees (1923), and the larger one built of plain, unadorned blocks of stone supported by a reinforced-concrete structure and decorated with stained-glass windows (1933). It is in its initial design only that the latter proclaims the mastery of Árkay, as the completed plans and the construction were left to the younger Árkay, Bertalan, to finish. Bertalan also built the memorial well, which was set up only after the consecration of the major church in June of 1933.

Árkay senior was born in Temesvár. Alongside his studies at the University of Technology, he turned his hand to painting and drawing. He was taught by Ede Balló and later Bertalan Székely at the Model Drawing School, and also

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