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Quittner, Zsigmond
(b Budapest, 13 Feb 1857; d Vienna, 25 Oct 1918). Hungarian architect. From 1874 to 1878 he studied under Gottfried von Neureuther (1811–87) in Munich and after 1880 worked in Budapest. He rapidly became sufficiently well known to be commissioned to build numerous residential blocks in the developing Budapest. He designed 14 on the Great Boulevard alone. He also designed public buildings, villas, exhibition pavilions (1885 and 1896; destr.) and tombstones. Initially Quittner followed the Renaissance Revival tendency; later he turned to neo-Baroque, for example in the Fasor Sanitorium (1890), Budapest. From the design of Ignác Alpár (1855–1928) he built the first phase (begun 1906) of the headquarters of the Hungarian Commercial Bank, Budapest. His chief work is the Gresham Insurance Company Building (1903–6; with József Vágó), Roosevelt Square, Budapest. Deliberately conspicuous both for its size and rich, sumptuous decoration, stylistically the building marks the transition from late historicism to the Secession style.
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