Naslov
In the Shadow of Budapest (and Vienna) – Architecture and Urban Development of Zagreb in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Autori
Damjanović, Dragan

Izvornik
Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies (0948-8294) 67 (2018), 4; 522-551

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Zagreb, Budapest, Vienna, 19th Century Architecture, Historicism in Architecture, Politics and Architecture, Károly Dragutin Khuen-Héderváry, Iso Kršnjavi, Ferenc Pfaff, Alexander (Sándor) von Aigner, Lajos Zobel, Ernő Foerk, Gyula Sándy

Sažetak
Within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Zagreb was always a receptive area – a city that imported, mainly with a certain delay, technological innovations, new concepts of urban planning, novel approaches to the construction of municipal utility infrastructure, and architectural designs from bigger and more progressive cities, most of all Vienna, despite the fact that the 1867 Compromise placed Croatia under direct Hungarian administration within the Monarchy. This paper aims to show that this occurred primarily because the majority of Croatian architects and members of the national political and economic elites had studied in Vienna, and partly due to the opposition towards Budapest that had been caused by a perception of Croatia’s unsatisfactory economic and political position within the eastern part of the monarchy. Furthermore, the knowledge transfer from Budapest to Zagreb was hampered by the fact that few people spoke Hungarian or were ethnically Hungarians, that Budapest’s architectural developments were largely unfamiliar in Zagreb and that Hungarian architects and engineers did not enjoy the equal amount of prestige as Viennese ones. Influences from Budapest grew stronger only after 1883 and the rise to power of Viceroy Károly Dragutin Khuen-Héderváry, an adherent of Hungarian politics. The Croatian government tried to strengthen the ties between Zagreb and Budapest and during the same period, Hungarian institutions (Royal Hungarian State Railways, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Posts) launched several major architectural building projects in Zagreb. Buildings of these institutions reshaped the image of Zagreb in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hungarian institutions built some of the biggest Zagreb public building in the given period, which significantly contributed to the diversity and monumentality of Zagreb’s architecture.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam, Povijest, Povijest umjetnosti

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