Jánszky, Béla (1884 - 1945)

Architect. Béla Jánszky was a pupil of Frigyes Schulek at the Budapest Technical University, where he gained his degree in 1906. He joined a group of architecture students led by Károly Kós, the Fiatalok (“Youths”), who took their inspiration for the emerging national architecture style from folk-peasant architecture. At the National Exhibition in Pécs in 1907, his folk art pavilion won a gold medal; in 1908, he and Károly Kós designed the Roman Catholic church of Zebegény, which was built between 1908 and 1911; and in 1910, he became a founding member of the Kecskemét Art Colony. He designed the buildings for the art colony in collaboration with his fellow-architect Tibor Szivessy – who designed several buildings in Budapest and elsewhere between 1909 and 1932. He died in Budapest in 1945.