STAINED GLASS WINDOW
(20th century)

Glass window of the Schiffer Villa

1911
Study
Private collection

There were many fine architects working in Budapest at the beginning of the 20th century whose designs evidence a fascinating combination of late nineteenth-century Eclecticism and elements of international and Hungarian Art Nouveau. József Vágo's Schiffer Villa (1910-12) is an excellent example of contemporary aspirations, and brought together such great artists as Károly Kernstok, who designed the glass windows, and István Csók, Béla Iványi Grünwald and József Rippl-Rónai, who painted the interior panels. Such collaboration between artists and architects changed the face of Budapest, to create a pleasant and inspiring environment in tune with the new bourgeois, middle-class way of life.

This study was made by Károly Kernstok (1873-1940).


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