Etel Fodor noon

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Etel Fodor-Mittag or Etel Mittag-Fodor (born December 28, 1905 in Agram , Austria-Hungary ; died 2005 in Wynberg , South Africa ) was a Hungarian photographer and commercial artist .

Life

From 1925 to 1928 she attended the private arts and crafts school Almos Jaschik in Budapest for a few weeks and trained as a photographer and commercial artist at the graphic teaching and research institute in Vienna . In September 1928 she passed her training and then she enrolled at the Bauhaus . Here, after completing Josef Albers' preliminary course, she switched to the printing and advertising workshop, to which the newly founded photography class was affiliated from 1929 under the direction of the Berlin photographer Walter Peterhans . Etel Fodor-Mittag learned artistic photographic techniques from Peterhans.

The first photographs were taken at the Bauhaus - portraits of fellow students and friends - and still lifes that show the influence of Peterhans' work. Her photographs differ from those of Peterhans in the texture and handling of diagonals. After personal and political differences with Peterhans, she left the Bauhaus in April 1930 and initially returned to her Hungarian homeland. In 1930 Fodor married his fellow Bauhaus student Ernst Mittag. At the same time as her husband completed her studies, Etel Fodor-Mittag returned to the Bauhaus as an external student; Etel Fodor-Mittag stayed, but from this point on she worked as a freelance photographer and commercial artist in Berlin, later in Pécs and Budapest, and from 1938, after her emigration , in South Africa.

At the age of almost 70, Etel Fodor-Mittag began to work artistically in the field of weaving , deepening the knowledge she had already gained in her youth and finally teaching weaving in South Africa until her death in 2005. In total, only about 30 wall hangings were created, which she planned meticulously in advance and for which she collected yarn and scraps of wool everywhere. Most of them were no larger than 1 m × 0.5 m, the work created in the 1960s with the title "Tribute to Albers" was one of the larger textile works. She didn't sell any of these pieces; Etel Fodor-Mittag gave her woven works away exclusively to relatives and friends.

literature

  • Photography at the Bauhaus , Jeannine Fiedler (edited for the Bauhaus Archive Berlin), Berlin 1990;
  • Etel Mittag-Fodor, "Not an unusual life, for the time and the place", memoirs, Wynberg, 1980, copy in the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin;
  • From art to life: The Hungarians at the Bauhaus Eva Bajkay et al., Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Berlin 2010;
  • Conversation between Dr. Anja Guttenberger and Thomas & Bianca Mittag, July 23, 2012, Bauhaus Archive Berlin;
  • Bauhaus student ID, Etel Fodor, Dessau 1932, copy in the Bauhaus Archive Berlin;
  • Certificate of study from Etel Fodor, September 30, 1930, copy in the Bauhaus Archive Berlin
  • Stutterheim, Kerstin; Bolbrinker, Niels. (1998/2009) Bauhaus Model and Myth , documentary film. Cindeoxx / Bolbrinker & Stutterheim. (available as DVD, absolutMedien GmbH). Includes interviews with Etel Fodor-Mittag.
  • Etel Mittag-Fodor . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 118-120.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cover picture of not an unusual life, for the time and the place ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bauhaus-shop.de
  2. ^ Etel Mittag-Fodor, "Not an unusual life, for the time and the place", memoirs, Wynberg, 1980, copy, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
  3. ↑ Stutterheim, Kerstin; Bolbrinker, Niels. (1998/2009) Bauhaus Model and Myth , documentary film. Cindeoxx / Bolbrinker & Stutterheim.
  4. ^ Etel Fodor Bauhaus student ID, Bauhaus Archive Berlin
  5. ↑ Interview in 'bauhaus - model and myth'
  6. ↑ From a conversation between Dr. Anja Guttenberger and Thomas & Bianca Mittag, July 23, 2012, Bauhaus Archive Berlin;
  7. ↑ Photos at the Bauhaus: Etel Fodor-Mittag. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 1, 2015 ; Retrieved October 18, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bauhaus-online.de
personal data
SURNAME Fodor noon, Etel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Midday Fodor, Etel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian photographer and commercial artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Agram
DATE OF DEATH 2005
Place of death Wynberg , South Africa