Gábor Eszter: Andrássy Avenue – Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)

■ The Bulyovizky

Villa (No. 124 Andrátty

út)

The neighbouring house (No. 126 Andrássy

út) was

not greeted with adverse criticism. Ervin Ybl,

who

could see the building in its original shape, spoke in terms of the highest praise for the house. "The villa at No. 126 Andra ay út

wat

built in 1875 by Guiztdv Petichacher for Vince Weninger I1834—79I. general manager of the General Credit Bank and the architects later father-in-law. In the well-balanced building, rich in fine decorative detail, which it the fint work of Petichacher, the talent of itt

builder

ii already manifest. He borrowi the clear forrni

of

the German Renaiaance, thoie that are moit compicuouily pretent about the bürgen'

hornet

of Nuremberg and the fapade of the Heidelberg Cattle, but theie he combinet with and adjuitt to the requirementt of a modem villa. Blended in the atymmetry of the building. the doted loggia placed on the right-hand iide with the projection and the gable are the picturetque effecti of Old German architecture and the unfettered freedom of the ttylet characteriitic of villái.

The

picturetque quality of the building ii further enhanced by the carved turfacet of itone and red brick. The roof wat originally covered with green tilet. Petichacher and Henrik Schmall were the fint to introduce the civilited beauty of the German Renaiaance to the architecture of Budapeit. PettchacherS own head, too, can be teen projecting from the wall in a medallion ornamenting 54