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Lajos Kassák
Lajos Kassák (March 21, 1887 – July 22, 1967) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde, and translator. Self-taught, he became a writer within the socialist movement and published journals important to the radical intellectual culture of Budapest in the early 1900s. Although he cannot be fully identified with any single avant-garde movement, he adopted elements of expressionism, futurism and dadaism. He has been described as a well-acclaimed artistic virtuoso whose strong achievements and socially committed activities interlaced with a consistent artistic vibrancy. He set the pace for the development of the avant-garde artistic wing in Hungary. Kassák is also considered to be a pioneer of a number of new developments in the Hungarian avant-garde and modernist art scene. It has been said that Kassák's legacy was stunted and unrecognized for a long while because his political and artistic activities were shrouded by the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tihanyi Portrait Of Lajos Kassák 1924
Tihanyi is a surname of Hungarian origin. Notable people with the surname include: *Endre Tihanyi (1945–2022), Hungarian gymnast *Jenő Tihanyi (1936–2007), Canadian swimming coach *József Tihanyi (born 1946), Hungarian athlete *Kálmán Tihanyi (1897–1947), Hungarian physicist and inventor *Lajos Tihanyi (1885–1938), Hungarian painter and lithographer *László Tihanyi (born 1956), Hungarian composer and conductor *Peter Tihanyi (born 2000), Hungarian professional wrestler *Sándor Tihanyi Sándor Tihanyi (born 28 April 1963) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Hungary. He was a member of Hungary's national team during the 1980s and 1990s. Career Tihanyi qualified for the 1988 World Final in Vojens, Denmark, where he ... (born 1963), Hungarian motorcycle rider {{DEFAULTSORT:Tihanyi Surnames of Hungarian origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béla Kun
Béla Kun (, born Béla Kohn; 20 February 1886 – 29 August 1938) was a Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician who in 1919 governed the Hungarian Soviet Republic. After attending Franz Joseph University at Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Kun had worked as a journalist until World War I. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, was captured by the Imperial Russian Army in 1916, and was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in the Ural Mountains. In Russia Kun embraced communist ideas, and in 1918 in Moscow he co-founded a Hungarian arm of the Russian Communist Party. He befriended Vladimir Lenin and fought for the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. In November 1918 Kun returned to Hungary with Soviet support and set up the Party of Communists in Hungary. Adopting Lenin's tactics, he agitated against the government of Mihály Károlyi and achieved great popularity despite being imprisoned. After his release in March 1919, Kun led a successful coup d'état, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constructivism (art)
Constructivism is an early twentieth-century art movement founded in 1915 by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. Abstract and austere, constructivist art aimed to reflect modern industrial society and urban space. The movement rejected decorative stylization in favour of the industrial assemblage of materials. Constructivists were in favour of art for propaganda and social purposes, and were associated with Soviet socialism, the Bolsheviks and the Russian avant-garde. Constructivist architecture and art had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements. Its influence was widespread, with major effects upon architecture, sculpture, graphic design, industrial design, theatre, film, dance, fashion and, to some extent, music. Beginnings Constructivism was a post-World War I development of Russian Futurism, and particularly of the 'counter reliefs' of Vladimir Tatlin, which had been exhibited in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde
In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time. The military metaphor of an ''advance guard'' identifies the artists and writers whose innovations in style, form, and subject-matter challenge the artistic and aesthetic validity of the established forms of art and the literary traditions of their time; thus, the artists who created the anti-novel and Surrealism were ahead of their times. As a stratum of the intelligentsia of a society, avant-garde artists promote progressive and radical politics and advocate for societal reform with and through works of art. In the essay "The Artist, the Scientist, and the Industrialist" (1825), Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues's political usage of ''vanguard'' identified the moral obligation of artists to "ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyugat
''Nyugat'' (, ''West''; pronounced similar to ''New-Got''), was an important Hungarian literary journal in the first half of the 20th century. Writers and poets from that era are referred to as "1st/2nd/3rd generation of the NYUGAT". History and profile ''Nyugat'' was founded in 1908 and initially edited by Ignotus (Hugo Veigelsberg), Ernő Osvát, and Miksa Fenyő. The magazine was receptive and inspired by the styles and philosophies then current in Western Europe, including naturalism, Symbolism, and impressionism. ''Nyugat'' published both poetry and prose writing. The first generation included the poets Endre Ady, Árpád Tóth, Mihály Babits, Dezső Kosztolányi, Gyula Juhász and Géza Gyóni, and the novelists Gyula Krúdy and Zsigmond Móricz. During World War I, ''Nyugat'' was challenged in leftist literary circles, particularly the grouping around Lajos Kassák who published first '' A Tett'' and then '' MA''. This left ''Nyugat'' frustrated and depressed abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egység
''Egység'' was a communist Hungarian art magazine published in Vienna and Berlin between 1922 and 1924. The full title was ''Egység, Irodalom, Müvészet'' which means "Unity, Literature, Art". Éva Forgács, Tyrus Miller, (2013) "The Avant-Garde in Budapest and in Exile in Vienna: ''A Tett'' (1915-6), ''Ma'' (Budapest 1916-9; Vienna 1920-6), ''Egység'' (1922-4), ''Akasztott Ember'' (1922), ''2x2'' (1922), ''Ék'' (1923-4), ''Is'' (1924), ''365'' (1925), ''Dokumentum'' (1926-7), and ''Munka'' (1928-39)", in ''The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. 3: Europe, 1880-1940'', Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 1128-1156. It was edited by Béla Uitz and Aladár Komját. They had previously been aligned with Lajos Kassák and his journal '' MA''. Whereas Kassak advocated an ideologically autonomous artistic avantgarde, ''Egység'' advocated that artistic activity should be more closely aligned with other aspects of class struggle and was critical of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aladár Komját
Aladár Komját (born Aladár Korach; 11 February 1891, Kassa – 3 January 1937, Paris) was a Hungarian poet and communist activist. Komját broke with Lajos Kassák and the circle of artists around '' MA'' in 1917 and participated in the founding of the Communist Party of Hungary in 1918. In 1919 he worked with Gyula Hevesi to launch the first Hungarian communist journal, ''Internationálé''. He joined Béla Uitz in editing'' Egység'', a journal they launched in 1922 while in exile in Vienna. In 1931 Komját was involved in debates amongst the German literary avant-garde allying himself with Karl Biro-Rosinger and Hans Marchwitza in advocating a more proletarian approach to writing which challenged the positions of Karl August Wittfogel Karl August Wittfogel (; 6 September 1896 – 25 May 1988) was a German-American playwright, historian, and sinologist. He was originally a Marxist and an active member of the Communist Party of Germany, but after the Second Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béla Uitz
Béla Uitz (8 March 1887, Mehála, Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Timișoara, Romania) – 26 January 1972, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian painter, graphic artist and communist activist. In 1907 he studied at the Hungarian National School of Applied Arts before moving on to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1908. He was a contributor to the anarchist-pacifist magazine '' A Tett'', published by Lajos Kassák 1915-1916. After ''A Tett'' was suppressed by the authorities, Kassák launched '' MA'' in 1917 and Uitz joined the editorial team. He attended the "Russian Evening" organised by ''MA'' on 20 November 1920 in Vienna. This led him to rethink his political-artistic stance. In "Jegyzetek a 'Ma' orosz estélyéhez" (Notes on MAs Russian evening) an article published in MA he was very critical of the Russian Proletkult movement which he viewed as an obstacle to the parallel progress of the material and spiritual revolution he envisaged. Nevertheless he later develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by Constructivism (art), constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. The art critic Peter Schjeldahl called him "relentlessly experimental" because of his pioneering work in painting, drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, theater, and writing. He also worked collaboratively with other artists, including his first wife Lucia Moholy, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Herbert Bayer. His largest accomplishment may be the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design in Chicago, which survives today as part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, and art historian Elizabeth Siegel called "his overarching work of art". He also wrote books and articles advocating a utopian t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MA (journal)
''Ma'' was a Hungarian language, Hungarian magazine connected with the Magyar Aktivizmus (Hungarian Activism) artistic group whose title not only reflects their initials but also means "today". It was founded in 1916 in Budapest by Lajos Kassák, who continued to publish it in exile in Vienna until 1925. History Origins ''MA'' was launched after a previous journal ''A Tett'' ("The Action") had been banned by the prosecutor's office in October 1916. The first issue was published the following month. From 1917 Béla Uitz joined the editorial team followed by Sándor Bortnyik, Jolán Simon, Sándor Barta and Erzsi Újvári. Under the Hungarian Soviet Republic Following the Aster Revolution, the MA activists were critical of Mihály Károlyi's government. They agitated for a communist revolution publishing special issues in support of revolutionary change. When the Hungarian Soviet Republic was established on 21 March 1919, at first it seemed that the MA group would play an important ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
