László Péri

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László Péri , also: Peter Laszlo Peri (born as Ladislas Weisz June 13, 1889 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died January 19, 1967 in London ) was a Hungarian-British sculptor and engraver who worked in Germany from 1920 to 1933.

Life

Man of the World (1959), University of Exeter

Under the nationalist pressure in Hungary, Ladislas Weisz had to Magyarize his name to László Péri , in Germany and Great Britain he also adapted the name to the local writing and speaking habits and finally bore the name Peter (Laszlo) Peri.

Péri completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and began studying sculpture in Budapest in 1918. After the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic , he emigrated to Paris in 1920 before the White Terror and came to Berlin with a letter of recommendation from Lajos Kassák . He began to develop concrete as a material for the visual arts. Herwarth Walden showed Péri together with works by László Moholy-Nagy : Constructivist concrete sculptures, wood sculptures, room constructions and linocuts in exhibitions of the gallery “Der Sturm” from 1922 to 1924. Péri's works were discussed in the magazine Der Sturm between 1921 and 1927. He became a member of the KPD and from 1924 to 1928 worked as an architect at the Berlin City Planning Department. In the second half of the 1920s he turned to realistic, figurative sculpture. Péri became a member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists, founded in 1928 .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he had to emigrate to Great Britain for racist reasons , where he co-founded the Artists' International Association (AIA) in 1933 . Despite his political activity and his advocacy of the Spanish Republic , he was naturalized in Great Britain in 1939 . There he received a number of commissions to design public spaces, such as the “Coventry sculpture” commissioned in 1960 for the opening of the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry .

The British painter, draftsman and sculptor Peter Peri , born in 1971, is a grandson. John Berger's novel A Painter of Our Time (1958) is inspired by the person of Peris.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Maholy-Nagy, Peri: paintings, watercolors, drawings, sculptures, overall view of the gallery Der Sturm in Berlin 1922 and 1923.
  • Room constructions (three-part wall composition) Great Berlin art exhibition 1923.
  • Peri / Hilbersheimer / Nell Walden. Gallery Der Sturm in Berlin 1924.
  • May 5 to 31, 1973: Laszlo Peri, Works 1920–1924 and the Problems of the “Shaped Canvas” Kölnischer Kunstverein.
  • Laszlo Peri, 1899–1967: Working in concrete: reliefs, sculptures, graphics. Exhibition. New Society for Fine Arts Berlin, Sculpture Museum Marl, 1982.
  • November 6, 1987 to January 23, 1988: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo Peri - two artists of the Hungarian avant-garde in Berlin 1920–1925. Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen.
  • September 17 to November 19, 2006: Peter Peri, country 10th in the Kunsthalle Basel.
  • January 10 to April 6, 2019: László Péri (1899–1967) sculptures and reliefs. Berinson Gallery.

literature

  • Margit Rowell: László Péri . In: The planar dimension: Europe, 1912-1932 . Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York 1979, pp. 28–30 and 134–137 (English, text archive - Internet Archive - with a short biography and portraits of some of his spatial constructions).
  • Péri, László (Ladislaus) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 413 .
  • Peri, László . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 337 .
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 896.
  • Hubertus Gaßner : "Longed for unity" or "extorted reconciliation". On the continuity and discontinuity of Hungarian constructivism concepts. In: Hubertus Gaßner: Interactions: Hungarian avant-garde in the Weimar Republic. [Neue Galerie, Kassel, November 9, 1986 - January 1, 1987; Museum Bochum, January 10, 1987 - February 15, 1987]. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 1986, pp. 183-257.
  • Jane Turner (Ed.): The Dictionary of Art. Volume 24, Macmillan, London 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0 , pp. 417 f. ( Grove Dictionary of Art ).
  • Ronald Berg: Rarity at the Berlin art dealer Wolfgang Werner - portfolio works from 1923 by Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky, Péri and Schlemmer . In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 15, 1999 ( tagesspiegel.de ).
  • Luise Maslow: László Péri, In: Antje Birthälmer, Gerhard Finckh (Hrsg.): The storm: Center of the avant-garde. Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2012, ISBN 978-3-89202-081-3 , p. 348.
  • Krisztina Passuth : Why is “The Storm” so important for Czech and Hungarian artists? In: Andrea von Hülsen-Esch and Gerhard Finckh (eds.): The storm: essays. Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2012, ISBN 978-3-89202-082-0 , pp. 483-496

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krisztina Passuth: Why is “The Storm” so important for Czech and Hungarian artists? P. 490 f.
  2. ^ J. Maho: Peri, Peter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 95, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-023261-5 , p. 115 f.
  3. ^ John Berger: The games. Leipzig 1991 (Reclam Library 1408).
  4. ^ Sculptures and reliefs. Galerie Berinson, 2019, accessed January 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Péri, László
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peri, Peter Laszlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-British sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1967
Place of death London