Ernő Kállai (9 November 1890,

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- 28 November 1954,

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) was a Hungarian art critic who was involved in the promotion of and theorisation around

Constructivism Constructivism may refer to: Art and architecture * Constructivism (art), an early 20th-century artistic movement that extols art as a practice for social purposes * Constructivist architecture, an architectural movement in Russia in the 1920s a ...

. He encountered

avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...

art upon visiting the MA gallery of

Lajos Kassák Lajos Kassák (March 21, 1887 – July 22, 1967) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde, and occasional translator. He was among the first genuine working-class writers in Hungarian litera ...

and soon contributed to '' MA'' under the pseudonym Péter Mátyás. Following the suppression of the

Hungarian Soviet Republic The Socialist Federative Republic of Councils in Hungary ( hu, Magyarországi Szocialista Szövetséges Tanácsköztársaság) (due to an early mistranslation, it became widely known as the Hungarian Soviet Republic in English-language sources ( ...

, Kállai went to

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but stayed in touch with other Hungarian refugees from the avant-garde art movement in

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. In 1923 he wrote “The Russian Exhibition in Berlin” (Originally published as “A berlini orosz kiállítás”, Akasztott Ember vol. 2 (February 15, 1923)] He also co-wrote a manifesto, “Nyilatkozat”, with Alfréd Kemény,

László Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the ...

and Laszlo Peri which appeared in '' Egység'' no. 4 (February 1923)]

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