Anker Palace () is a building in

Terézváros Terézváros (, English: Theresa Town, German: Theresienstadt) is the District VI of Budapest, and was named after Queen Maria Theresa in 1777, who visited the neighbourhood 26 years earlier in 1751. The territory was first inhabited in the earl ...

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

. It was built by

Ignác Alpár Ignác Alpár József (born Schöckl József; 17 January 1855 in Pest, Hungary, Pest – 27 April 1928 in Zürich) was a Hungary, Hungarian architect.

in 1908 for a

Viennese Viennese may refer to: * Vienna, the capital of Austria * Viennese people, List of people from Vienna * Viennese German, the German dialect spoken in Vienna * Viennese classicism * Viennese coffee house, an eating establishment and part of Viennese ...

insurance company, the Anker Life and Pension Company. The building was built in the

eclectic style Eclecticism is a kind of mixed style in the fine arts: "the borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them" . Significantly, Eclecticism hardly ever constituted a specific style in art: it is characterized by the fact t ...

and was completed in 1910. It faces on to

Deák Ferenc Square Deák or Deak is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrienn Henczné Deák (1890–1956), Hungarian painter * Edit DeAk (1948–2017), née Deak, Hungarian-born American art critic and writer * Edward Deak, professor of economic ...

. There are

Doric columns The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of t ...

on the facade and two statues of women with outstretched arms on the roof.

Anker Köz

Anker Köz (alley) runs in a curve around the rear of the building. The

Galileo Circle The Galileo Circle (''Galilei Kör'') was an atheist-materialist student organization that functioned in Budapest between 1908 and 1919. Their center was located at the Anker Palace#Anker Köz, Anker Köz in Terézváros, Budapest. The circle had ...

was based here, 1910-1919.

Notable residents

* Geza Hofi *

Léopold Szondi Léopold Szondi ( ; March 11, 1893 – January 24, 1986) was a Hungarian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, psychopathologist and Professor of psychology. Founder of the concept of fate analysis. He is known for the now-discredited psychological ...

References

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