Architectural image of the Motherland: Saint Petersburg and Budapest

Abstract

The article compares the prerequisites of “national renaissance” in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. It analyzes the similarity and difference in the development of the Russian style and the “Magyar Renaissance” are analyzed. The authors come to the conclusion that despite the different intensions of the emergence of national romanticism, in both cases the national style evolved from an overdecorated facade architecture to the most laconic “severe” style, which was more appropriate in the context of the beginning of the First World War. By 1914, integral ensembles appeared, which opened up the city-forming prospects of national romanticism.

Keywords

• national romanticism
• Russian style
• Magyar Secession
• architectural image of the motherland
• Josef Huszka
• Andreas Roller