The Art Nouveau villa, set in the middle of a beautiful garden, is still full of wonderful details.
One of the most important routes in the Buda Highlands, the Hűvösvölgyi Road, which has medieval roots, is lined with places of urban and cultural historical significance, as the King Sigismund He started building by then Matthias and Wladislaw II In addition to the Budanyék Renaissance hunting lodge, completed during his reign, we also find the former headquarters of the Pannónia Film Studio, the Lipótmezei Madhouse, which has been vacant for quite some time, and the villas of many well-known faces of the turn of the century.
The owners of the Jungfer locksmith factory, which defined the face of the capital with its wrought iron works, built their houses here a few meters from each other. In addition to its stage roles, it became a favorite of the country thanks to early Hungarian silent films. Emilia Markus , and in recent years, thanks to the government, it has come back into the spotlight. Herczeg Ferenc There were also writers, and around them, often now forgotten artists bought or had their own homes built - such was the case with the people who started from Jászkisér. Lakeside Klara Kury (1870-1935), who, as one of the first operetta prima donnas, enjoyed almost uninterrupted success for several years.
A Lake village dr. Oscar Kury The daughter of a public and probate lawyer, she grew up in a carefree middle-class family. She initially learned to sing purely for fun, and she showed off her talent at amateur performances held in various parts of the country. She soon attracted attention, as she was only twenty years old when she was later honored as the founder of the Vígszínház and the father of modern Hungarian theater. Greater Detroit invited him to a rehearsal in Cluj-Napoca, where, at his father's request, Morning Klara The play was performed under the name of . The success was immediate, so Ditrói not only signed her, but also took on the task of teaching her, and even turned her into the best soubrette in the region. The cheerful, inventive, but secondary roles in the plays, compared to the female lead, eventually brought the young Küry such popularity that in 1892 she became a member of the Budapest People's Theatre company, and spent the next twelve years within the walls of the now demolished Blaha Lujza Square building.
According to the Hungarian Theatre Arts Encyclopedia, the woman had no equal in light, "cute", "smiling" operettas, but she was not at home in the classic pieces of the genre, but despite this, the director still adapted the theater's entire program to her.
Küry, considered the ideal of beauty in Budapest, burning with millennium fever, enjoyed a steep rise in popularity until 1900. Fedak Sari However, his appearance suddenly broke his career, so in 1902 he appeared as a guest at the Carltheater in Vienna and then in Prague, and in 1904, due to internal conflicts and a whole series of rumors, Küry's name became so well-known that it was even possible to sell cosmetics under his name.
His career was thus almost over, as in the following years he only signed for one role each at the Vígszínház (1904-1905), the Király Színház (1904-1906), the Magyar Színház (1907), the Népszínház (1907-1908), and the Városliget Színkör (1909-1912), but in the meantime he also toured the Hungarian countryside tirelessly. His last domestic performance finally took place in 1915, and after that he only appeared on stage briefly in New York (1921).
The artist, who quasi-retired herself at the age of thirty-four, remembers the 1900s Blaha Lujzáéhoz He spent it in his apartment with a similar view, but while his colleague, referred to as the nation's nightingale, could look out the window at the main entrance to the People's Theater and the city's first brick cinema, Küry could only see the back facade of the building.
The memory of the years spent regularly on the same stage could still haunt the artist, of course, as she could watch the People's Theatre's bankruptcy in 1908 - the building was taken over by the National Theatre - from the window of her own apartment, but the following year she moved permanently to Buda.
A new residence was built at 81 Hűvösvölgyi Street (then 47 Hidegkúti Street), which previously housed the Pethő Villa. He chose the plot, which was then used by the director of the Polgári Sörfőzdet, together with his neighbors, but was also active as the Honorary Consul General of Persia. Ferenc Freund of Toszegi , or the lawyer Dr. Gyula Keleti The purchase contract was finally signed in April 1909, and Küry wasted no time, as they were probably ready by the time of the signing. Jesowitz (in other sources) Jezovits, or Yesovits ) Michael his plans for a pretty, stone-paved Art Nouveau villa, which became a reality by the end of the year.
The engineer with the interesting name, Jesowitz, was a lesser-known master of turn-of-the-century Budapest, who recorded a whole series of summer houses and villas. Wherever we look, there are kossúrús, large heavy silk ribbons, valuable, expensive memories, portraits, — as if all the excellence of the last decade had met each other in this charming apartment. Upstairs is the library and the bedroom, on the ground floor is the drawing room, dining room, and lounge, furnished with the artistic taste of a delicate and poetic female soul.
— Look at these, — the artist points to two thick books with gold bindings. — Here are the criticisms about me. I have collected them in these books, Laszlo Beöthy gifted them to me. And indeed, every minute moment of a wonderfully beautiful and harmonious career is captured in these two books. All the criticism that has been published about Klára Küry is here together in chronological order. – reads the article, which was written for a compelling reason: it was planned that the unprecedentedly popular priestess of the Hungarian operetta world would return to the former home of her hot successes, the Király Theatre, after lengthy negotiations.
This eventually happened, but Küry's claim that he had collected all the criticisms was probably not entirely true, as the well-known critics of the time often had less than flattering opinions about him in the columns of various newspapers - for example, the barely twenty-one-year-old To Dezső Kosztolányi also, who just occupied it Endre Ady When the editorial board of the Budapesti Napló became vacant, he immediately scandalized the artist's fans with the following thought (November 21, 1906): Klára Küry once again revealed how much she could not act. She was as gray and boring as only a celebrated prima donna could be. However, she played with the certainty of her success, and the audience wanted to celebrate her at all costs.
The star, who once attracted crowds to the People's Theatre, eventually used the villa until the spring of 1917, when his mother slipped on the dance floor and died shortly after from her leg injuries, and Küry felt that he could no longer stay in the house. This was when the Újpest match factory, which had boosted the city's war orphans, and the then-independent city, also established a home for war orphans, appeared on the scene. Miklos Kollar , who, together with his wife, purchased the building almost immediately.
The can also be read online , a relative of one of the tenants of the house, Dr. Géza Rhorer According to the purchase and sale contract drawn up by a lawyer, Küry handed over the equipment in the laundry room, the garden furniture, the garden tools, the carpets, and the copper bars in the staircase, but took the appliances, kitchen equipment, and chandeliers with him.
The last two decades of the former prima donna's life were not uneventful, as she also appeared on stage in New York in 1921, and in fact remained active until the weeks before her death in 1935.
According to the Pesti Napló (April 28, 1935), he performed for a matinee in March at the Vígszínház, along with many former stars, and his success was not lacking. Arthur Lakner He told the newspaper that Küry was greeted by a storm of applause that lasted for minutes, and upon seeing this, he wrote the following: Dear Grandma in which she played a retired actress.
(Text: 24.hu)
