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Esteeming the creators

Marcell Komor (1868-1944)
Dezsõ Jakab (1864-1932)

This year during the Celebration of the City of Subotica the city demonstrated its respect to the architects who created the unique façade of Subotica. Marcell Komor and Dezsõ Jakab can be considered as the most noted architects of the turn of the century.

To piece together: Komor mainly concentrated on the building design and on the function, while Jakab focused on the exterior decoration and the interior design. In Subotica they designed the city's more significant buildings, the Synagogue, the Town Hall and the building complex in Palic, all in the style of Hungarian secession.

The inauguration of the busts, Mr. Árpád Papp,
chairman of the Executive Council and Ms. Olga Sram

A century after their magnificent contribution to the city, the Municipality of Subotica decided to place their busts in the park beside the Town Hall, so they can examine their work facing the Town Hall.

The author of the busts: Sava Halugin

The project was initiated by Ms. Ildiko Lovas, the Municipality's Counselor for Culture, and the busts are the art-piece of Mr. Sava Halugin sculptor.

”Do we remember them? Do we know how did their faces look like? Their look? Were they balding? Did they have fuzzy hair? Were they shock-headed or philistines? What kind of men were they? One of them was the victim of the Holocaust. Do we know that?

I thought, it would be good to know.

I thought, their place is in our midst. More accurately, our place beside them, around them.”

Ildiko Lovas, writer
31st August, 2004.