Lajos Kassák
Lajos Kassák (born March 21, 1887 in Érsekújvár , Austria-Hungary , † July 22, 1967 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian writer and painter .
Life
After an apprenticeship as a locksmith , he went on a hike and came to Paris in 1907 , where he stayed until 1910. Here he met Guillaume Apollinaire , Cendrars , Robert Delaunay and Pablo Picasso . In 1912 he began writing expressionist poems, dramas and novels.
After his return to Budapest, he and Emil Szittya published the Hungarian avant-garde magazine “ A Tett ” (Die Tat), which was soon banned due to anti-militarist tendencies. Kurt Schwitters , Oskar Schlemmer , Tzara , El Lissitzky and Alexander Archipenko published in the magazine "MA" (Today), which he has been editing since 1916 . He proclaimed the unity of technical civilization and art. László Moholy-Nagy , with whom he published the “ Book of New Artists ” in 1922 while emigrating to Vienna , also belonged to the group around “MA” . In 1921 he began his own constructivist work. In 1922 he published the manifesto Bildarchitektur and exhibited in the Berlin gallery Der Sturm .
In 1926 he returned to Hungary, from which he had fled after the suppression of the Hungarian Soviet Republic , founded the “ Ring neue Werbegestalter ” with Schwitters and Jan Tschichold , which had its focus in Germany, and became the editor of several avant-garde magazines . When his literary works were banned in the 1950s, Kassák began to paint again. He followed up on his Dadaist , constructivist work and produced large-format abstract and surrealist collages .
A museum is dedicated to Kassák's work in Budapest's Zichy Castle .
Fonts
- The horse dies and the birds fly out. Poem , from the Hungarian. by Robert Stauffer . Attached work: Twenty poems , from the Hungarian. by Endre Gáspár. Nachw. By Max Blaeulich, Klagenfurt: Wieser, 1989 ISBN 3-85129-015-1
- Let us live in our time: poems, pictures and writings on art , selection, etc. Follow-up by Jozsef Vadas. Translated by: Pál Acél ... Adaptations by: Annemarie Bostroem , Budapest: Corvina, 1989 ISBN 963-13-2920-8
- Traveling as a vagabond: memories , from d. Hungarian. by Friderika Schag, Berlin: Verlag Volk u. World 1979
- MA-Book: Poems , Dt. with e. Vorw. V. Andreas Gaspár, Berlin: Verl. D. Sturm 1923
Exhibitions
- 2011: Berlinische Galerie
Web links
- Literature by and about Lajos Kassák in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: biography
- Lajos Kassák on kunstaspekte.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kassák, Lajos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian painter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Érsekújvár, today Nové Zámky , Slovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1967 |
| Place of death | Budapest |