Jolán Szilágyi (15 June 1895,

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- 8 July 1971,

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), was a Hungarian

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and

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. She married

Tibor Szamuely Tibor Szamuely (December 27, 1890 – August 2, 1919) was a Hungarian communist politician and journalist who was Deputy People's Commissar of War and People's Commissar of Public Education during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Early life ...

. During the

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Tibor was People's Commissar for Military Affairs and Jolán produced political posters, such as ''Minden gyárnak legyen munkászászlóalja!'' (Every factory should have a workers' battalion!). When the Republic was overthrown, she went into exile spending time in

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and the

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, before returning to

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in 1948. In 1921-1922 she was studying at VKhUTEMAS, the art and technical school founded in 1920 in

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. When Béla Uitz and Alfréd Kemény attended the 3rd Congress of the

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in Moscow, they met with Szilágyi who introduced them to

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Szilágyi, Jolán 20th-century Hungarian women painters 20th-century Hungarian painters Hungarian graphic artists Hungarian editorial cartoonists Hungarian women cartoonists Hungarian poster artists Hungarian political artists 1895 births 1971 deaths 20th-century Hungarian artists