Alexander Sándor Járay

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Alexander Sándor Járay ( 1870 in Temesvár , Austria-Hungary - July 5, 1943 in Hendon , London , United Kingdom ) was an Austrian sculptor who was forced to emigrate after the National Socialists came to power in Austria in March 1938.

life and work

His parents were the furniture manufacturer Sigmund Járay (1838–1908) and Mathilde geb. Eckstein (1845-1902). The family was originally called Jeitteles. He had three brothers, Max, Karl and Alfred, and a sister, Gisela, who later married Stricker. One of his uncles was Sándor Járay (1845–1916), an art furniture manufacturer and interior designer. One of his cousins ​​was the architect Karl Járay (1878–1947).

Alexander Sándor Járay was also active as an actor. He became an academic sculptor and was his first marriage to Karolina Carla geb. Nagy-Buck married. The couple had a son, Stephan, born in March 1906 in Berlin. After the death of his first wife in 1936, he married the Viennese art dealer Lea Bondi (1880–1969). In 1938 the Würthle Gallery , which was owned by his second wife, was " Aryanized ". In 1939 Járay emigrated to England with his wife. After his death, his widow established herself there as a gallery owner, she ran the St. George's Gallery . His son was also able to escape the Holocaust , but only after nine months in a concentration camp in Dachau .

For his sculptures he mostly used white marble or he cast them in bronze. They were mostly younger nameless girls or famous older men in largely naturalistic designs. In marble there is a nude girl plaiting his braid , the ball player and a dancer . In bronze there is mother with child or Josef Kainz as Hamlet. For a particularly luxurious statuette of a dancer with castanets , he combined ivory with patinated bronze on an onyx base. He designed the bust of Arthur Schnitzler , which was later placed in the Burgtheater , and Karl Kraus' death mask . There are several reliefs at the former maternity hospital in Berlin's Strassmann House , including that of a man reading.

The British artist Tess Jaray, born in 1937, is his great niece. The Austrian actor Hans Jaray (1906–1990) was also one of his relatives. His son died in Sydney in 1966.

gallery

  • Reading man

  • Josef Kainz Monument

  • Arthur Schnitzler

Web links

Commons : Sándor Járay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Soxberger: And what will it be with the Jarays? On the 60th anniversary of the death of the architect Karl Járay (1878–1947). In: David . ( david.juden.at , accessed February 7, 2020).
  2. ^ Kerekes: Prague lies between Galicia and Vienna, Ad Librum, Budapest 2008, ISBN 978-963-9888-197 p. 44
  3. ↑ The Jeitteles-Jaray-Family: Exodus (PDF), accessed on January 19, 2020. Alexander Sándor Járay is also often referred to as Sándor Járay Jr. , in contrast to his uncle Sándor Járay , a furniture manufacturer and interior designer who was also born in Temesvár has been. On many online auction platforms, Alexander Sándor Járay's life dates are incorrectly given as 1870–1916. 1916 was the uncle's death date. Again and again his sculptural work is mistakenly attributed to his uncle.
  4. ↑ The art world's refugee revolution , accessed on June 25, 2020
  5. ↑ Sander Jaray , accessed June 25, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Járay, Alexander Sándor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Járay, Sándor jun.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Temesvár , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1943
Place of death Hendon , London , United Kingdom