Lajta, Béla
Name
Lajta, Béla
Variant name
Béla Leitersdorfer
Gender
Male
Birth
January 23, 1873 Buda
Death
October 12, 1920 Vienna
Descriptive Note
Béla Lajta was a prominent Hungarian architect. He completed his degree at the Budapest Technical University and then spent some time in Italy, where he also worked in painting and sculpture. He then moved to Berlin and London, and returned home in 1899. His first work in 1900 was the Bard music shop on Kossuth Lajos street, finished in 1900. He worked with Ödön Lechner on several projects, including the Kozma Street Cemetery's Schmidl crypt.
His works were characterized by pre-modern elements, as well as Scandinavian and modern post-Art Nouveau elements.
The Main Portal of the Institute for the Blind (Budapest, 1905-1908) and the Entrance to the Jewish Charity Home (Budapest, 1909-1911) anticipated the structure of the portal of the Hungarian pavilion at the Exposition of Turin 1911.
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