Description of AN building
(subotica, Serbia, The City rent (najamna) mansion / Najamna palata)

40259 subotica Serbia 3 ANB				NOT SAVED

Title	The City rent (najamna) mansion / Najamna palata
Description	The building on the corner in 1 Cara Dušana St. was built to be a Town Rental Palace by the order of Free Royal Town of Subotica. It was designed by Pal Vadas (Vadász Pál, 1874-1944) in 1911 in style of the Vienna Secession, and finished two years latter in 1913. On the ground floor there were shops, while on the first floor elite apartments were situated. The building also had the elevator, which was the first elevator in a Subotica’s residential building.Facade of this building is unique in our town, and it was made in late variant of the Vienna secession. The rounded corner is marked with a semicircular erker, which below the roof has reliefs with three figural compositions made in stone with a gilded mosaic background. Forms of human figures are made in full relief, with a pronounced volume, and represent symbols that emphasize certain features of the town and its current aspirations. On the attic part of the building facing the theater, there is a glass wall of the first city art studio. On its two sides we find two male figures in a shallow relief, poured out of artificial stone. One figure holds a hammer leaning against the anvil, to which the wheel is tilted. The combination of these attributes indicates the allegory of trades and industry. The second figure is surrounded by objects that symbolize art: lyra - music and poetry, vase - applied artwork, painting palette and brushes - painting, bust - sculpture. The two figures are facing each other's head towards the studio. This display points to one of the basic concepts of secession: the fraternity of art and crafts that is, the industry. The original drawings point to an extraordinary gift for a form that has its role in the examples of the Vienna secession, such as, for example, works by Klimt (Gustav Klimt 1862-1918). The whole building was actually built and decorated under the direct influence of the Vienna Secession. In the central upper part of the glass wall there is a wrought iron mask with a stylized beard and mustache, and a similar motif is located above the entrance door at the corner of the building. These masks were also modeled along the lines of Klimt's graphics.
Classifications	architecture, maiolica, woodwork, façades, figurines, ornaments, metalwork
People	{"owners":"Free Royal town Subotica","architects":"Vadász Pál (1874-1944)"}
Time	1911.
Place	Branislava Nusica 2, Subotica

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