Chapel at Balatonboglár
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The Chapel at Balatonboglár, also known as Körmendy Chapel, is a funeral chapel turned into a modern art studio at Lake Balaton, Balatonboglár in Hungary.
In 1966, the Hungarian avant-garde artist Galantai Gyorgy came across the abandoned funeral chapel at Balatonboglár while at a summer camp on Lake Balaton in Hungary. He made friends with the local priest, and decided to rent the chapel as a studio. He graduated in 1967 and decided to be a freelance artist, hoping to make a living in applied art. In 1968, he signed a 15-year lease with the Catholic Church for the Körmendy Chapel at Balatonboglár. In lieu of rent, he undertook to preserve the chapel.
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