Zádor Anna: Neoclassical Pest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

Trattner House, courtyard

no longer existing building as a point of interest, since one of the most outstanding goldsmiths of the period, József Szentpéteri, sadly complains in his autobiography: “I wonder how good-intentioned a patron of the arts Baron Brüdern was, when he let me use one of these shops. Nobody seems to walk there all day long.” In contrast, let us think of the crowds of people wandering down Petőfi Sándor utca today and we can immediately sense the huge difference between the rhythms and densities of city life then and now. Szentpéteri also mentions in his diary that “[thanks to Baron Brüdern] Markó, the famous landscape painter, lived there too,

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