Mathias Unger the Younger

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Mathias Unger the Younger (also Hungarian Ifj. Unger Mátyás , born December 9, 1824 in Győr ; † February 13, 1878 ibid) was, like his father of the same name Mathias Unger the Elder , a Hungarian playing card painter .

Life

Mathias was born as the fourth and youngest son of the playing card painter Mathias Unger the Elder from Sopron . As early as 1841, together with his older brother Alois (1814–1848), who was an academic artist, he attracted attention with his particularly beautiful, patriotic Hungarian playing card designs and cards engraved in copper. He learned the playing card painting trade from his father and also acquired the title of master, but opened a tobacco shop in the mid-1850s and later also a toy shop in what is now the Lloyd building on what was then the main square, today's Széchenyi tér in Győr. In the school year 1873/74, at the express request of Flóris Rómer, he left the wooden printing blocks for playing cards and playing card packaging belonging to the Unger family in the Rómer Flóris Museum to the collection of the Győr Benedictine High School, the forerunner of today's museum.

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 the Younger'. 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. PDF

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personal data
SURNAME Unger, Mathias the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mátyás, Ifj. Unger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian playing card painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Győr
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1878
Place of death Győr