Sándor Ék

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Ék with Arno Hochmuth (middle) and Lea Grundig (1970)

Sándor Ék (born August 27, 1902 in Szentmihályfa , Austria-Hungary ; died January 15, 1975 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian graphic artist.

Life

Alex Leicht Magyarized his first name Alexander in Sándor and later adopted the pseudonym Sándor Ék , also known as Alex Keil in German . He participated in the Hungarian Soviet Republic and was arrested as a member of the Hungarian Communist Party after its suppression in 1919 . In 1920 he managed to escape to Austria and from there to the USSR . From 1925 he worked as an illustrator and graphic artist for the press and propaganda of the Communist Party of Germany in Berlin . He was a co-founder of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists .

When power was handed over to the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated to the USSR. After 1941 he entered the service of the Red Army , with whom he returned to Hungary in 1944. In Hungary, which was now ruled by communists, he worked as a graphic artist, poster artist and lecturer at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Mary MacMillan (that is: Auguste Lazar ): Sally Pencil in America . Illustrations by Alex Keil. Moscow: Foreign Workers Publishing Cooperative in the USSR, 1935
  • Leonid Panteleev : Budjonny's courier . Illustrations by Alex Keil. Moscow: Foreign Workers Publishing Cooperative in the USSR, 1935
  • Georg Born: Diary of the SA man Willi Schröder . Illustrations by Alex Keil. Moscow: Foreign Workers Publishing Cooperative in the USSR, 1936
  • Auguste Lazar: Jura in the Lenin Hut . Illustrations by Sándor Ék. 3. Edition. Berlin: Children's book publisher, 1970
  • Munkái . Budapest: Müvészeti alkotások vállalat kiadása, 1951
  • A realizmus zászlaja alatt . Budapest: Képzőművészeti Alap, 1954
  • The freedom to say hello . Budapest: Corvina, 1955
  • Painting and graphics . Berlin: Verl. D. Ministry f. national defense, 1960
  • The roots of my work are in proletarian revolutionary art . In: Fine arts . 1972, pp. 511-513
  • Posters . Budapest: Corvina Publishing House, 1976 ISBN 963-13-4340-5

literature

  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 117
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 255
  • K. Bakos: Ék, Sándor . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 33, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22773-6 , p. 107 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Ék, Sándor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Easy, Alex (maiden name); Keil, Alex (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Szentmihályfa
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 1975
Place of death Budapest