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Der Wiener Feuilletonist Ludwig Hevesi (1843–1910) hat im Band Mac Eck’s Sonderbare Reisen zwischen Konstantinopel und San Francisco (1901) die Reiseerlebnisse des Wiener Fabrikanten und Privatgelehrten Friedrich Eckstein (1861–1939) veröffentlicht bzw. nacherzählt. Die Besonderheit der Sammlung besteht in der doppelten Autorschaft, die sich aus der Verquickung der narrativen Stimmen des mündlich berichtenden Eckstein und des protokollierenden Hevesi ergibt. „Mac Ecks“ Berichte über die USA dokumentieren den touristischen Erfahrungshorizont der Gründerzeit und die Auseinandersetzung Wiener Intellektueller mit dem Amerikanismus.
The period lasting from the Compromise betweeen Austria and Hungary in 1867 to World War I was a ‘golden age’ of Hungarian horticulture and garden art. Country houses with their parks belonged traditionally to the way of living of the aristocracy. The ‘construction boom’ generated by a fruitful interplay of the favourable economic conditions of the ‘Gründerzeit’ and the related social needs and financial abilities, resulted in a multitude of new gardens. This surge of development almost coincided with the spread of historical revivalism in garden design from the 1860s and with an increasing role played by Hungarian creators of gardens in addition to foreign specialists who settled or were invited to work here.
The period between the two World Wars did not effect a fatal break in this garden culture. In some cases, this slowly consolidating period brought real efflorescence (e.g. Hatvan, Röjtökmuzsaj, Szeleste), though these places were the exceptions. The construction and transformation of parks together with the modernization of houses continued in the interwar decades (e.g. Dég, Röjtökmuzsaj) and considerable new establishments were also created (e.g. Vajta, Csorvás, Selyp).
The country house gardens of historical revivalism, with their spectacular parterres, avenues, exotic plant rarities grown in the greenhouses or nursery gardens and transferred to the pleasure-grounds or shown at exhibitions, with their sports facilities and family mausoleums represented the prestige of the aristocracy which still clearly played the leading role in politics and society despite their declining economic and cultural influence. Alternatively they expressed the ambition of a new plutocracy to acquire social legitimation for their wealth. In a few cases and in both groups, there was something else: the garden became the site and instrument through which they could achieve accomplishment by means of creative activity.
The present study is a first attempt at summarising the partial results of research that in its initial phase on the topic. It describes 12 sites in detail, 9 from the period between 1880 and World War I, and 3 from the 1920–30s. After the descripions it gives a preliminary overview of tendences and characteristics of the examined period including the transformation of the landscape garden, revivalist structural elements, follies and utilitarian garden structures, statuary and other garden ornaments, landscape gardeners and creative owners, mainteneance and productive gardening, with a lot of further examples and personalities. Finally, a brief outlook closes the study to the post-1945 survival of the gardens described and historical revivalism in garden art in general.
Miklós Ybl (1814–1891) bicentenary
Scientific conference and exhibitions on the occasion of the bicentenary of the architect’s birth
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Von der „Erfindung“ der Renaissance zur Praxis der Neorenaissance. Paris – Dresden – Berlin – Budapest
The Invention of the Renaissance Concept and the Practice of Neorenaissance Architecture. Paris – Dresden – Berlin – Budapest
Recht auf die Parallele zu Sempers Palais Oppenheim in Dresden); Cillessen, Wolfgang: Das Palais Pless und das Palais Borsig. Zwei Bauten der Gründerzeit in der Berliner Wilhelmstraße, Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 36, 1994, S. 217–240, bes. S. 234 ff
Die Wiener Weltausstellung 1873. •
Die Berichterstattung von Ármin Vámbéry und Max Nordau über die orientalische Abteilung sowie den Schah-Besuch in der Kaiserstadt.
Monarchie auf dem Höhepunkt der liberalen Ära der Gründerzeit”. 8 Sie trug auch dazu bei, “der Welt ein kulturell bedeutendes und – nach den militärischen Niederlagen von 1859 und 1866 gegen Italien und Preußen – politisch und wirtschaftlich
