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

The Calvinist Church of Magyarvalkó (Väleni),

photo by László Haris

‘Transylvania is a strange corner of Europe, a quite secluded, tuckedaway region. A geographical cauldron in relatively high altitude, surrounded by unforgiving clifffaces, which create a barrier between it and the open plains much travelled by the ancient wandering ethnic groups. Maybe it is due to this very secludedness, this fortress-like structure that it has been inhabited since time immemorial’.

'... the people of the Kalotaszeg/Tara Cälatei region have such a strong sense of identity, such an instinctive awareness of its ethnic boundaries, that it can only be the inherited and carefully, consciously preserved result of many centuries of separate identity-construction’.KOS1932 ia

Magyarvista (Vistea), circa 1955

photo by Dr. Károly Kós

Kriza János Néprajzi Társaság archives, K)NT 00128

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