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Farkas "Wolfgang" Ferenc Molnár (1897–1945) was a Hungarian architect, painter, essayist, and graphic artist. He is associated with the first generation of
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, and was active in Budapest.


Biography

Farkas Molnár was born in 1897 in
Pécs Pécs ( , ; ; Slovak language, Slovak: ''Päťkostolie''; also known by #Name, alternative names) is List of cities and towns of Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, the fifth largest city in Hungary, on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the c ...
, southwestern Hungary. He attended Hungarian University of Fine Arts from 1915 to 1917; followed by study at the
Budapest University of Technology and Economics The Budapest University of Technology and Economics ( or in short ), official abbreviation BME, is a public research university located in Budapest, Hungary. It is the most significant university of technology in the country and is considered ...
in 1917 before he was expelled for his leftist views. In 1921, he became a member of
Bauhaus University, Weimar The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany, and specializes in the artistic and technical fields. Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910. In 1919 the s ...
and studied under
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, and later
Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (; 18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-born American architect and founder of the Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of ...
. In 1923, he organized the first exhibition of the Bauhaus, at which time he exhibited a plan for a house known as ''.'' In 1924, he studied under Georg Muche and
Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer ( ; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. At the Bauhaus he designed the Was ...
; and worked on designing the exterior and interior of terraced houses. He moved back to Hungry in 1925, where he graduated from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, studied under and . He participated in the KUT exhibitions with his paintings and designs, as well as was a founding member of the Hungarian Workshop Association, and took part in the Bauhaus tradition of the Green Donkey Theater's stage workshop. Molnár designed the "U-Theatre", a motorized stage that could glide horizontally. In 1929, Gropius invited him to the CIAM Congress (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) in Frankfurt. After his return, together with Marcello Breuer and József Fischer, he founded the CIAM branch in Hungary. His work is part of museum collections including
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(MoMA), and
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.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Molnár, Farkas 1897 births 1945 deaths Hungarian architects Hungarian graphic artists Bauhaus University, Weimar alumni People from Pécs Hungarian University of Fine Arts alumni Budapest University of Technology and Economics alumni 20th-century Hungarian architects Modernist architects