Vidor, Emil

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Architect and interior designer. One of the most prominent exponents of Art Nouveau architecture in Hungary, Emil Vidor began his architectural studies in the Budapest Technical University and continued in Munich and Berlin. After his return, he worked in the office of Miklós Ybl and opened his own architectural office in 1894. The buildings built to his plans include the Egger villa and Vidor house on Városligeti Avenue in Budapest, the Bedő house, which accommodates the Hungarian House of Art Nouveau, and the Palatinus buildings on the Pest bank of the Danube. He was elected president of the Association of Hungarian Architects in 1934 and died in Budapest in 1952.