Andor Weininger

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Andor Weininger (born February 12, 1899 in Karancs, Austria-Hungary; † March 6, 1986 in New York City , USA) was an artist , designer and architect who lived and worked in Germany, the Netherlands and the USA .

Life

As the son of a music teacher and organist , his life was artistically shaped early on. Andor started painting at the age of 16.

Andor Weininger began studying law in Pécs (Hungary) in 1917 . He later studied at the Technical University in Budapest, but interrupted his studies due to the effects of the First World War and the beginning revolution in Hungary. Andor Weininger painted in Pécs from 1919 to 1921 and took part in exhibitions. The death of his father prevented him from continuing his studies at the Technical University of Munich.

Due to his artistic talent, Weininger applied to the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1921 , where he began studying in October of the same year. In his first semester he attended a preliminary course from Johannes Itten . Financial reasons forced him to break off this after three months, but he was able to continue later under the direction of Georg Muche . Until the dissolution of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Andor Weininger studied under the artistic direction of Wassily Kandinsky in the wall painting workshop of the Bauhaus Theater. From 1922 Weininger belonged to the De Stijl circle, whose leading figure was the Dutch constructivist Theo van Doesburg . Weininger worked at the Bauhaus as a musician, set designer , copywriter and solo entertainer at Bauhaus dance evenings. In the spring of 1924 he founded the Bauhaus band with Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer , Rudolf Paris and Heinrich Koch , most of which performed free compositions on self-made musical instruments. In the second half of the 1920s the band was one of the most famous jazz bands in Germany.

After the dissolution of the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1925, Weininger worked for the father of his friend Josef (Sepp) Maltan in Schönau and Berchtesgaden as a painter and interior designer, but soon moved back to the Hungarian Pécs. Following Walter Gropius' request , Weininger soon returned to the Bauhaus, which had meanwhile moved to Dessau . For the reopening of the Bauhaus in Dessau on December 4, 1926, Andor Weininger first performed his musical clowning in a clown costume designed by Oskar Schlemmer . From 1925 to 1928 Andor Weininger was a member of the stage workshop and played a key role in the Bauhaus dances. With the opening of the architecture department of the Bauhaus in 1927, Andor Weininger designed one of the most utopian theater buildings of its time - the spherical theater - as an answer to the conventional space theater.

Weininger left the Bauhaus and Dessau in April 1928. Together with the former Bauhaus student and trained cabinet maker Eva Fernbach, he worked as an architect and designer in Berlin until 1938. Her circle of friends at that time included prominent artists such as Walter Gropius, Lázló Moholy-Nagy and Oskar Schlemmer. In 1931 Andor Weininger and Eva Fernbach married. With the takeover of government by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in 1933 and the establishment of a dictatorship in Germany, their order situation deteriorated considerably. Their architecture was not compatible with the newly propagated "Heimatstil" of the National Socialists . It was not until December 1938 that the Weininger couple decided to emigrate to the Netherlands with their daughter Cornelia. The move to Great Britain failed in September 1939 when the Second World War broke out. The Weiningers first settled in Scheveningen , after the evacuation of the city in 1942 they moved to Amsterdam , where Andor Weininger worked again as a painter and illustrator until 1951.

From 1948 to 1951 Andor Weininger participated in many exhibitions and became a member of the Federatie van Veroepsverenigingen van Kunstenaars (1949) and the artist group Creatie (1950).

In 1951 the Weiningers emigrated to Toronto ( Canada ) because their entry into the USA was not permitted. So in Toronto he was a very productive artist, and in 1956 he had his only monographic exhibition at the Eglinton Gallery. In 1958 they moved to New York City. Weininger's mechanical stage revue and the ball theater were exhibited for the first comprehensive Bauhaus exhibition in 1968 at the Württembergischer Kunstverein . Until 1971 this exhibition traveled around the world. Andor Weininger also exhibited his works at exhibitions in the USA. Andor Weininger was represented with twelve works in the context of the Bauhaus-Color in Atlanta, Houston and San Diego. From 1978 to 1984 the Bauhaus dances were reconstructed and performed in close collaboration with him.

Andrew Weininger died in New York City in 1986 at the age of 87.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jeannine Fiedler & Peter Feierabend: Bauhaus. Könemann, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89508-600-2 , p. 145.
  2. ^ Michael Siebenbrodt: Jazz band and total work of art - Music at the Bauhaus in Weimar . Yearbook of the Weimar Classic Foundation. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2011, pp. 121-136

literature

  • Botar, Oliver AI, A Bauhausler in Canada: Andor Weininger in the 50s . Oshawa and Winnipeg: The Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery and Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba, 2009. (278 pp., 470 illustrations, hardcover)
  • Steven A. Mansbach et al. a. [Ed.], Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Standing in the tempest. Painters of the Hungarian Avant-garde 1908-1930 , Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.]: MIT Pr., 1991 ISBN 0-262-13274-5

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personal data
SURNAME Weininger, Andor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weininger, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Karancs, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1986
Place of death New York City , USA