Farkas Molnár

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Buildings on Harangvirág utca (1929)
Bauhaus exhibition from 1923
Underground theater (1925)

Farkas Ferenc Molnár (born June 21, 1897 in Pécs , Austria-Hungary ; died January 12, 1945 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian architect and a leading member of international modernism between the two world wars .

Life

After studying painting and graphics at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and then architecture at the Technical University of Fine Arts there , Molnár emigrated in 1920 after the fall of the Soviet Republic in Hungary and was initially a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921 to 1925 Johannes Itten , later an employee of Walter Gropius . In 1923 he designed the Red Cube for the Am Horn model house in Weimar, but Georg Muche's design was implemented . In 1925 he returned to Budapest and worked with Paul Ligeti and József Fischer to design apartment buildings. He was a co-founder of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne and organized the Hungarian section.

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literature

  • András Ferkai: Hungarian Architecture between the Wars. In: Dora Wiebenson, József Sisa (ed.): The Architecture of Historic Hungary. The MIT Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1998, pp. 253 f.
  • György Várkonyi, Drachensteiger , in: Júlia Fabényi (ed.), Living by Art: The Hungarians at the Bauhaus , Pécs 2010, pp. 198–213.
  • Károly Lyka : Molnár, Farkas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 46 .

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SURNAME Molnár, Farkas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molnár, Farkas Ferenc (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Five churches , in Hungarian Pécs
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1945
Place of death Budapest