Carl Laszlo

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Carl Laszlo in his home in Basel (2008)

Carl Laszlo ( Hungarian László Károly ; born July 16, 1923 in Pécs ; † November 8, 2013 in Basel ) was a Hungarian - Swiss art dealer , collector , psychoanalyst and author .

Life

Laszlo grew up as the son of an assimilated upper-class Jewish family in Pécs. He attended the Cistercian high school in his hometown and then turned to the study of medicine . At the age of fourteen he had already started collecting Hungarian folk art and became interested in its Asian roots. Most of Laszlo's family was murdered in 1944, but he himself survived several concentration camps , including Auschwitz , Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and left his homeland after the communist seizure of power in Hungary.

Laszlo successfully established himself as a psychoanalyst and art dealer in Basel and was also politically active in the 1950s, for example in favor of the expelled Dalai Lama . In the 1960s, Laszlo was particularly interested in the American art scene and its drug experiments. Not least because of personal contacts, Laszlo expanded his diverse collections. In addition to several thousand Buddhist statues from the 15th to 19th centuries, this collection includes modern and modern European painting, Pop Art , and photos. William Blake , Salvador Dalí , Thilo Maatsch , Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Roy Lichtenstein , Robert Mapplethorpe and Andy Warhol are among the artists represented. In 1968 he received Swiss citizenship.

Laszlo has also been a writer of short dramas, manifestos, and magazine editor ( Panderma , then Radar ) since the 1950s . His concentration camp memories are published under the gloomy, ironic title Ferien am Waldsee , his youth memories under the title Der Weg nach Auschwitz . A part of Carl Laszlo's collections, around 200 objects, mainly of 20th century Hungarian art, has been on permanent display in the Dubniczay Palace in Veszprém since 2006 .

In the spring of 2020, the Viennese publisher Das vergierter Buch announced that it would be relaunching Ferien am Waldsee, which had already been completely forgotten during the author's lifetime. Edited by the publisher Albert C. Eibl and with a personal afterword by the well-known journalist and bestselling author Alexander Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stay in the realm of the dead , Basler Zeitung / Newsnet , November 16, 2013, accessed on November 16, 2013.
  2. Grand Council criticizes Basel's legislative plan as “too vague” , Regionaljournal Basel / Baselland, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , November 13, 2013, 12:03 pm, accessed on November 16, 2013.
  3. ^ Holidays at the Waldsee - DVB Verlag GmbH. Retrieved on May 19, 2020 (German).