Judit Kárász

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Judit Kárász (born May 21, 1912 in Szeged , Austria-Hungary ; died May 30, 1977 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian photographer . In 1930 she became a student at the Bauhaus in Dessau and was one of the most important representatives of social documentary photography in her home country in the 1930s .

Life

From 1933 to 1935 Kárász was married to the doctor Karl Müller-Touraine. In 1939 she entered into a marriage of convenience with the painter Hans Helving in order to obtain Danish citizenship. Kárász had a long affair with the writer and organ builder Hans Henny Jahnn on Bornholm.

After Kárász returned to communist Hungary in 1949, she worked for the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest.

After a cancer diagnosis, Judit Kárász committed suicide on May 30, 1977.

Exhibitions

  • Soziofoto , Budapest 1933.
  • Retrospective, Budapest 1988.
  • Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Bornholm 1994.
  • Randers Art Museum 1995.
  • The Tate Gallery has acquired a series of five material studies, four of which date from Kárász's time at the Bauhaus.

Works (participation as photographer, selection)

  • Mária Csernyánszky: Hungarian top art . Corvina, Budapest 1962.
  • Hedvig Szabolcsi: French furniture in Hungary . Corvina, Budapest 1964.
  • Iparművészeti Múzeum . Budapest 1964.
  • Miklós Boskovits, Miklós Mojzer, Andrās Mucsi: Christian art in Hungary. Collection from the Esztergom Christian Museum . Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1965.
  • Lengyel műkincsek magyar gyűjteményekben . Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest 1978.
  • Polskie dzieła sztuki w zbiorach węgierskich . Muzeum Rzemiosła Artystycznego Budapeszt, 1978.

literature

  • Julia Secklehner: Judit Kárász . In: Elizabeth Otto , Patrick Rösler (ed.): Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 178-179.
  • A szegedi zsidóság és a fotográfia . 2014.
  • Péter Nádas : Soul mate / Kindred Spirits. Hungarian Photographers 1914–2003 . Berlin 2005.
  • Judit Kárász. Photographs from 1930 to 1945 . Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Bornholm 1994.
  • Kárász Judit, 1912–1977. Fotói . Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest 1987.
  • Hubertus Gaßner : Alternating Effects. Hungarian avant-garde in the Weimar Republic . Marburg 1986. p. 574.
  • Judit Kárász . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 178-179.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DNB : Müller-Touraine, Karl. (accessed on September 27, 2019)
  2. ↑ tate.org: Judith Karasz. Art works. (English, with illustrations; accessed September 27, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Kárász, Judit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helving, Judit; Müller-Touraine, Judit; Touraine, Judit (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1977
Place of death Budapest