Meinig Arthur is a prolific architect of the last decades of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, who came to Vienna from his homeland and the place of his studies, Saxony, where he joined the office of Fellner and Helmer, an architect couple famous for their theater and palace buildings. He came to Budapest through one of his noble commissions, the Károlyi-Csekonics Palace in Budapest, where he settled and became the most popular designer of the Hungarian aristocracy in the following two decades. He was referred to as a magnate architect in his time, and was a specialist in palaces and castles. His office produced the plans for the Wenckheim Palace (today the central building of the Ervin Szabó Library in Fővárosi) and the Andrássy Castle in Tiszadob, which brought him further important aristocratic commissions. He often turned to Baroque and Rococo forms for his representative urban constructions, while he preferred the style of the castles along the Loire for his country mansions. In the last phase of his life, around the 1900s, the architect, who worked in a historicist style, enriched our architecture with some significant art nouveau works.