Hajós György: Heroes' Square - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2001)

being nationalised it erected 5,461 buildings, 4,765 of which stand in Budapest, which include the Szerb utca unit of Loránd Eötvös University, the building of the former High Court (today’s Museum of Ethnology) in Kossuth Lajos tér, the Corvin Cinema, the buildings of the University of Technology and a modern office block in Szabadság tér.

Fűlöp Herczog, architect (Vienna, 1860-Budapest, 1925). He graduated from the Technological University of Vienna to settle down in Pest in the 1890s, where he was naturalised as a Hungarian citizen in 1896. From 1893 he worked in association with Albert Schickedanz.

Barnabás Holló, sculptor (Alsóhangony, 1865-Buda- pest, 1917). He was trained in Budapest. Among his well-known works are the Wesselényi Memorial Plaque on the wall of the Franciscan Church of Budapest, his relief commemorating the establishment of the Hungarian Academy of Science on the wall of the Academy and another relief called Queen Elizabeth Lays a Wreath at the Bier of Ferenc Deák in the foyer of the Academy. Many of his sculptures are kept in the National Gallery and several of his memorial statues stand in various towns in the provinces.

Róbert K. Kertész, architect (Budapest, 1876-Buda- pest, 1951). After his graduation from the University of Technology in Budapest he worked as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Ancient Architecture. Between 1922 and 1934 he was head of the Arts Department in the Ministry of Religion and Culture where he continued the management of the ongoing programme of public elementary schools. His travels in the Orient resulted in the publication of a study called The Architecture of Ceylon. The Premonstratensian Secondary School of Gödöllő (today the Faculty of Agriculture of St. Stephen University) was built to his plans. He won first prize with his designs, prepared in collaboration with Károly Weichinger, for a new Town Hall.

Zsigmond Kisfalüdi Strobl, sculptor (Alsórajk, 1884- Budapest, 1975). Received the Kossuth Prize. He studied art in Budapest, Vienna and Paris. The most

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