Anna Lesznai

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Anna Lesznai (1935)
Grave on the Kerepesi temető : 20 / 1-1-78.

Anna Lesznai (born January 3, 1885 in Alsókörtvélyes , Austria-Hungary ; died October 2, 1966 in New York City ) was a Hungarian writer, painter and graphic artist.

Life

Amália J. Moskowitz (called Máli ) was born in the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and grew up near Kassa (Košice) on the Leznai estate of her ennobled father Gejza Moskowitz (-1913) and Hermina Hatvany. This was the personal secretary of Chancellor Gyula Andrássy . The writer Lajos Hatvany was her cousin.

Anna Lesznai shared a studio with the painter Dezső Orbán and was a model for him. She was represented in the second exhibition by the artist group Nyolcak (The Eight) in 1911. She was also able to publish poems in the literary magazine Nyugat . She was the mutual friend of Georg Lukács and Béla Balázs , to whom she dedicated the play Fee Ferne in 1911 , and was also friends with the psychoanalyst Edit Gyömrői . Máli was a member of the Budapest Sunday Circle . After her marriage to Károly Garai , from whom the son Kari came, she was married to the sociologist Oszkár Jászi between 1913 and 1920 and had three sons with him, including the future German studies specialist Andrew Jászi (1917-1998). After the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, she stayed at her country estate in Körtvélyes, then emigrated to Vienna, where she married the illustrator Tibor Gergely , who was fifteen years her junior and whom she knew from the Sonntagskreis, who was kept in Vienna for a short time by Balázs could be. She became a member of the Association of Austrian Women Artists (VBKÖ) and was accepted into the Hagenbund in 1930 . In 1925 she illustrated the Fantasy Travel Guide for Balázs . This is a Baedeker of the soul for summer visitors . Because of political repression and anti-Semitism , she emigrated to the United States with Gergely in 1939. While she couldn't make the linguistic connection, Gergely was able to succeed there as a creator and illustrator of picture books for children.

Posthumously in 1976 an exhibition was dedicated to her work in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest .

Autobiography

  • Late autumn in Eden. Novel . ( Kezdetben volt a kert ) From d. Hungarian. trans. by Ernst Lorsy, Karlsruhe: Stahlberg, 1965
  • Diary, unpublished, excerpts from: Éva Karádi, Erzsébet Vezér [Eds.]: Georg Lukács, Karl Mannheim und der Sonntagskreis , pp. 129–140
  • Erzsébet Vezér: Interview , June 23, 1965 at the Petőfi Literature Museum

Fonts in German translation

  • The journey of the little butterfly through Leszna and to the neighboring fairy kingdoms . Vienna: Rosenbaum, 1912 (Hanau: Dausien, 1980 ISBN 3-7684-3944-5 )
  • True fairy tales from the Garden of Eden . Berlin: Das Arsenal, 2008 ISBN 978-3-931109-49-3

literature

  • Éva Bajkay et al .: 6 Hungarians in the Hagenbund = A Hagenbund Magyarjai: Béni Ferenczy, Anna Lesznai, Tibor Gergely, Georg Mayer-Marton, Elza Kövesházi Kalmár, Imre Simay: Exhibition with works of art from Austrian private collections and the Hungarian National Gallery . Budapest: Balassi Intézet, 2015
  • Valéria Dienes: Letter to Anna Lesznai , In: Amália Kerekes (Ed.), More or Weininger. a text offensive from Austria, Hungary Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-7003-1526-0
  • Éva Karádi, Erzsébet Vezér [eds.]: Georg Lukács, Karl Mannheim and the Sunday Circle , Frankfurt am Main: Sendler, 1985 ISBN 3-88048-074-5
  • György Litván : A twentieth-century prophet: Oscár Jászi, 1875–1957 , Budapest, New York: Central European University Press, 2006.
  • Hanno Loewy : Medium and Initiation. Béla Balázs: fairy tales, aesthetics, cinema . Diss. Frankfurt 1999 [deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=958461252&dok_var ... archive server deposit.d-nb.de]

Web links

Commons : Anna Lesznai  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gergely Barki, Evelyn Benesch, Zoltán Rockenbauer (eds.): The eight. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-07157-5 , pp. 190 f. Nude picture on p. 165 and an excerpt from it on p. 130 f
  2. ↑ Hanno Loewy, Medium and Initiation , p. 261
  3. ^ The artists ' cooperative and its rivals Secession and Hagenbund Vienna: Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverl., 2003. Volume 1 of Das Wiener Künstlerhaus 1861–2001 ISBN 3-85437-189-6 , pp. 288, 337
  4. ↑ Hanno Loewy, Medium and Initiation , p. 315
  5. ↑ Ursula Seeber [Hrsg.]: Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature , Austrian exile library. Vienna: Picus-Verl., 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 84
personal data
SURNAME Lesznai, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsókörtvélyes
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1966
Place of death New York City