János Mácza

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János Mácza ( Iwan Ludwigowitsch Maza in the Soviet Union , also Matsa , Russian Иван Людвигович Маца ; born August 4, 1893 in Nižný Hrabovec near Vranov ; died November 14, 1974 ) was a Hungarian art historian and cultural scientist.

Life

From 1915 onwards, Mácza worked for the monthly magazines A Tett ( Die Tat , 1915/16) and MA ( HEUTE , from 1916), which were published by Lajos Kassák and focused on both the propaganda of the artistic and literary ideas of the avant-garde and the publication of politically radical ones were mainly communist authors. During the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic under Béla Kun , he was deputy director of the Budapest National Theater in 1919 .

After the failure of the Soviet Republic in August 1919, Mácza returned to his native Upper Hungary and was co-editor of the communist newspaper Kassai Munkás in Kassa , which now belonged to Czechoslovakia . The paper, published in Hungarian, played a pioneering role in the presentation and translation of the new Soviet art and literature.

In 1923, Mácza moved to the Soviet Union and joined the CPSU in the same year . The focus of his academic work in the 1920s was on the areas of aesthetic theory and the theory and history of architecture. In Moscow he initially taught art theory at various educational institutions; from 1928 then at the Moscow State University (MGU), where he received a professorship in 1930. There he began collecting valuable documents of artistic activities from the time of the Soviet avant-garde in 1933. Some of these holdings became the property of the State Archives for Literature in Moscow.

From 1928 to 1932 Mácza was a member of the October ( Октябрь ) artist group . He was a holder of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor ( Орден Трудового Красного Знамени ).

His estate is in the Petőfi Literature Museum in Budapest.

Publications

In the USSR

  • Iskusstvo sovremennoj evropy . Gos. Izd., Moscow 1926. ( Искусство современной Европы ; translated title: "The Art of Modern Europe")
  • Literatura i proletariat na Zapade . Communist. Akad. Sekcija lit. i isk, Moscow 1927. ( Литература и пролетариат на Западе ; translated title: "Literature and Proletariat in Western Europe")
  • Iskusstvo · epochi zrelogo kapitalizma na Zapade . Komm. Akad., Moscow 1929. ( Искусство эпохи зрелого капитализма на Западе ; translated title: "The Art of the Epoch of High Capitalism in Western Europe")
  • Ocerki po teoreticeskomu iskusstvoznaniju . Communist. Akad. (Sekcija literatury, iskusstv i jazyka), Moscow 1930. ( Очерки по теоретическому искусствознанию ; translated title: "Essays on theoretical art history")
  • Sovetskoe iskusstvo za 15 let: Materialy i dokumentatsiya . Izogiz, Moscow and Leningrad 1933. ( Советское искусство за 15 лет: Материалы и документация ; translated title: "15 Years of Soviet Art: Materials and Documentation")
  • A. Dejneka . So V. Chudoznik, Moscow 1959 ( А. Дейнека )
  • Архитектура Чехословакии. Исторический очерк . Moscow 1959. (translated title: "Architecture of Czechoslovakia. Historical description.")
  • Istorija esteticeskich ucenij . University of Moscow, 1962. ( История эстетических учений ; translated title: "History of aesthetic teaching. Textbook.")
  • Problemy chudozestvennoj kul'tury XX veka . Izd. Iskusstvo, Moscow 1969. ( Проблемы художественной культуры ХХ века ; translated title: "Problems of artistic culture in the 20th century")

In Hungary

  • Esztétika és forradalom . Gondolat, Budapest 1970 (translated title: "Aesthetics and Revolution")
  • Legendák és tények tanulmányok a XX. század művészettörténetéhez Mácza János . Corvina, Budapest 1972 (translated title: "Legends and facts ...")
  • A mai Európa művészete . A Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, Budapest 1978
  • Eszmeiség, avant-garde, művészet . A Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, Budapest
    Part I: Irodalom és munkásosztály Nyugaton . (around 1981, ISBN 963-7411-34-8 )
    Part II. Alkotó módszer és művészi örökség . (around 1983, ISBN 963-7411-39-9 )

literature

  • Christina Lodder: Russian constructivism . Yale University Press, New Haven 1983. ISBN 0-300-02727-3 (4th edition 1990)
  • V. Aronov ( В. Аронов ): Исследователь материальной культуры . In: Декоративное искусство СССР , 1972, number 9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver AI Botar: From the avant-garde to “proletarian art” . Art Journal, Spring 1993. Online version at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0425/is_n1_v52/ai_14331391/pg_1
  2. ↑ Albert Tezla: Hungarian Authors. A Bibliographical Handbook . Online version at http://mek.oszk.hu/00000/00017/html/index.htm
personal data
SURNAME Mácza, János
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maza, Iwan Ludwigowitsch; Matsa, Iwan Ludwigowitsch; Маца, Иван Людвигович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Nižný Hrabovec near Vranov
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1974