Mathias Unger the elder

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Mathias Unger the Elder ( Hungarian Id. Unger Mátyás , baptized May 29, 1789 in Sopron , † April 21, 1862 in Győr ) was like his son Mathias Unger the Younger Hungarian playing card painter.

Life

Mathias Unger came from a long-established Sopron bourgeois family, his father Johann Georg (Hungarian: János György ) and his brother Martin ( Márton ) were councilors there. After his apprenticeship as a playing card painter in Sopron and the waltz, he settled as a master in Győr in 1810, where he also acquired citizenship. At first he tended to make simpler playing cards, then the design of the cards became increasingly more sophisticated and specifically Hungarian. The cards he made included Doppeldeutsche, Tarock, Whist, Trappola and service cards. In 1841 he and his sons Alois ( Alajos 1814–1848, academic painter) and Mathias produced patriotic cards with Hungarian rulers.

In 1846 he received an award at the industrial products exhibition in his hometown for the exceptionally beautiful design and the Hungarian costumes of his playing card figures. The card designer Alois died in December 1848. The father continued the workshop until a few years before his death, but could no longer build on the successes. His youngest son Mathias, also a master of playing cards, opened a tobacco shop in the mid-1850s and later a toy shop on the main square in Győr (today's Lloyd building, Széchenyi tér).

The Unger were one of the first to label their packaging in German and Hungarian. Cards are in the Technical Museum Vienna, in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest; Wooden printing blocks of playing cards and packaging are in the Rómer Flóris Museum in Győr.

literature

  • Antal Jánoska: Kártyafestők Győrben . In: Magyar Grafika 6/2004. Pp. 59-61.
  • Antal Jánoska and Ferenc Horváth: Card makers in Raab / Győr . In: Talon - magazine of the Austro-Hungarian Playing Card Association , Vienna / Budapest. 15/2006. Pp. 48-69.
  • 'Mathias Unger'. In: Nándor Salamon. Kisalföldi Művészeti Lexicon . Vasszilvágy. 2012.
  • Claudia Wunderlich: The Győr playing card painters family Unger - in the mirror of new discoveries . In: Talon - magazine of the Austro-Hungarian Playing Card Association, 18/2009, Vienna / Budapest, pp. 78–81.
  • Claudia Wunderlich: A Hungarian family of map painters and artists of the 19th century: The Győrer Unger . In: Arrabona 48/2, 2010. pp. 139–158.
  • Claudia Wunderlich: The Ungers: A 19th century playing-card making family in Győr, Hungary . In: The Playing-Card - Journal of the International Playing-Card Society , 40/2, 2011. pp. 112-138.
  • Claudia Wunderlich: The iconography, design and manufacture of the 19th century playing-cards by the Unger family from Győr. In: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 57/2, 2012. pp. 263-284.
  • Claudia Wunderlich: Későnazarénus, késő romantikus és kártyatervező: a Kupelwieser-tanítvány Unger Alajos újrafelfedezése. In: Arrabona 50/2, 2012. pp. 135-188.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ unplayed cards can be found in the Technisches Museum Wien (kk factory product cabinet)
personal data
SURNAME Unger, Mathias the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian playing card painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized May 29, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Sopron
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1862
Place of death Győr