After Szekesfehervar, the brilliant sunshine continued, and we set out to find a house by Gyula Fodor that I had never heard of on a street whose name was equally unfamiliar: Also erdosor utca. To get there we walked down Kossuth Lajos utca til it turns into Rakoczi utca, then turn toward the Jewish quarter. The sun was shining bright, bright, bright and even though those streets are a little rundown, the sunshine made them gorgeous. We passed a beautiful building (recently renovated) by Emil Vidor in 1905, and then an intriguing building by Gyula Kosztalanyi-Kahn from 1902 to 1904.
Eventually we arrived at Also erdosor utca 8, and its large house by Gyula Fodor from a large house by the architect Gyula Fodor (who I have written about elsewhere on the blog) built in .
The house is large and sits on a narrow street and is hard to photograph with the lens on my camera. It is called the Steinhardt Udvar or haz for the owner. The sculptor was Simon Ney. Steinhardt was a famous actor, and Fodor designs the façade to suggest a theater. At the very top are two masques--representing tragedy and comedy. And underneath are two scenes--one sad, the other happy. The sculptor was Simon Ney.
Also decorating the building are Art Nouveau motifs such as flowers and Fodor's characteristic dancing girls.
The interior (luck was with me) is equally beautiful.
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