Works by Béla Lajta

Sepulchral monuments designed by Béla Lajta

cca. 1903

This building, which he planned entirely on his own in 1903, is one of the most important works dating from Lajta’s ’lechnerian period’.

, 1903 (1st prize)|Budapest, X. Kozma utca.|

, 1904-1905| Senta, Serbia, Adai Street 10.

, 1904 (1st prize)|Zenta (today Senta, Serbia)

, 1905 (3rd prize)|Budapest, V. Balassi Bálint utca|

Dezső Malonyay acquired the building lot at 5 Izsó Street on July 3, 1905. Béla Lajta’s drawings received official approval in September the same year.

The first significant public institution designed by Lajta was commissioned by the Jewish Congregation of Pest and financed from the foundation established by the last will of master builder

, 1905–1906|Budapest, V. Hercegprímás utca 11.

Béla Lajta was one of founders of the bourgeois-middle class club called ’Club of Erzsébetváros’ ('Erzsébetvárosi Kaszinó'), which he also served as arts advisor.

The decoratively yet monumentally concieved storeront at 15 Szent István Square was added to the wholesale textile shop of Jónás Hecht and Son in late 1907, to adorn the ground floor offices

The society, which, apart from providing the Jews of Budapest with the necessary burial rituals also operated a number of charitable institutions decided to build three new such institutions in its