Leó Popper

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Leó Popper (born November 11, 1886 in Budapest , † October 22, 1911 in Görbersdorf ) was a Hungarian painter , composer and art historian . He wrote essays on aesthetic theory and philosophy. He was the son of the cellist and composer David Popper and a close friend of the Hungarian philosopher Georg Lukács .

Life

The Prague-born father Leo Poppers, the cellist and composer David Popper , moved to Budapest when his son was born. Leo Popper graduated from high school in 1905 and attended both the Music Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1906 he took part in the Frauenbach school of painting ("nagybányai művésztelep").

He was part of the artist group "The Eight".

Popper died of tuberculosis in 1911.

Create

In his essays, Popper dealt with Paul Cézanne , Vincent van Gogh , Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol , as well as with folk art. He particularly focused on Dutch painting at the transition from the 16th to the 17th century and the works of Hercules Seghers and Pieter Bruegel the Elder . In his review of Wilhelm Hausenstein's book, which interprets historically, Popper focuses on “visual tectonic heaviness” and sees a parallel to Paul Cézanne's pictures. He developed the term dough to describe the plasticity of the two. This model, which Popper later renamed Allteig , was adopted by Lukács in his Heidelberg Philosophy of Art .

Another important theoretical element is the “necessary misunderstanding” between work and interpretation.

Popper was one of the mediators of the art and architecture theoretical discussions of the magazine Die Fackel founded by Karl Kraus in the Hungarian-speaking area.

Works

  • Dialógus a művészetről , 1906 (first writing).
  • Peter Brueghel the Elder , 1910 (first important study).
  • Heaviness and abstraction Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin 1987. (anthology with the writings Dialog über Kunst and Peter Brueghel the Elder, among others. ) Edited by Philippe Despoix and Lothar Müller, translated from the Hungarian by Anna Gara-Bak. ISBN 3-922660-27-4 .
  • Dialógus a művészetről. Popper Leó és Lukács György levelezése (Correspondence between Popper and Lukács) T-Twins K., Budapest 1993. (Hungarian) ISBN 963-7977-16-3 .

literature

  • Lukács György: Leo Popper (1886-1911). An obituary in Pester Lloyd, December 18, 1911, pp. 5-6.
  • Despoix, Philippe: Ethics of Disenchantment. On the relationship between the aesthetic, ethical and political spheres at the beginning of the 20th century Philo, Bodenheim 1998. Translated from the French by Annette Weber.
  • Markója, Csilla: Popper Leó (1886-1911) , in: István Bardoly and Csilla Markója (eds.): Emberek, és nem frakkok Budapest 2007, pp. 263–284.
  • Timár, Árpád: The Young Lukács and the Fine Arts , in: Acta Historiae Artium 34 (1989), pp. 29-39.
  • Born, Robert: Budapest and the socio-historical approach in art history , in Dietlind Hüchtker, Alfrun Kliems (ed.): Transferring - Overforming - Blending. Theory transfer in the 20th century , Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011, pp. 94–124.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lukács dedicated the first chapter to him ( On Form and Nature of the Essay ) of his book The Soul and the Forms . This text, written as a letter, is dated a year before Popper's death.
  2. ↑ See Nagybányai művésztelep in the Hungarian Wikipedia.
  3. ↑ a b c d e cf. Born, Robert: Budapest and the socio-historical approach in art history , in: Transferring - Overforming - Overlaying. Theory Transfer in the 20th Century . Edited by Dietlind Hüchtker, Alfrun Kliems , Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011, pp. 94–124, here p. 101.
  4. ↑ See OENB's personal description ( memento of the original dated June 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onb.ac.at
  5. ^ Wilhelm Hausenstein: Der Bauern-Bruegel , Munich 1910. (About the Dutch painters.)
  6. ↑ Lukács wrote this text between 1912 and 1914, but was not published until 1974.
personal data
SURNAME Popper, Leó
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter, composer and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1911
Place of death Görbersdorf