If the name of famous soprano and teacher Lucia Cosma is particularly cherished by the inhabitants of the city of Timișoara, this is not only because of her art as a singer at the Romanian Opera, but also due to her work in helping orphaned children in the aftermath of WW1.
Together with her husband lawyer Aurel Cosma, the artist lived for a while at 5 Dr Gheorghe Marinescu Street in the Fabric neighbourhood. Today in the protected area of the Millennium Church, the building is part of an eclectic block dating in great part from the 19th century. The façades of the semi-basement, one-storey house are positioned symmetrically to the characteristic blunted corner and divided into three horizontal registers and two vertical ones (on the northern and western side).
Windows ornaments and frames are Classical (balusters, column heads) and Baroque (broken arches above the openings on the ground floor). The vertical registers are marked by pilasters whose base rests on the ground floor and whose heads seems to support the corniche featuring cantilevers decorated with vegetal patterns. The frame of the original woodwork is set with geometrical patterns, the lower part of the building more richly ornamented than the upper area.
The building is in a precarious state, the main intervention consisting of replacing the outer ceramic tiles.
References:
Muzica, 1-2/2015, pp. 175-88