Edgar Kovach

Edgar Kovacs (1849-1912) was an architect, painter, art theorist, and rector of Lviv Polytechnic. He was a Hungarian by birth. He is the author of his own concept of a new Galician style in architecture and applied art called the "Zakopane Method". He formulated the main principles in the album of ornamental motifs of the same name, published in 1899.

His creations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became true masterpieces of European art. At the same time, the beginning of Kovacs's career and its end are closely connected with Lviv.