Vilmos Huszár

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Vilmos Huszár, around 1922

Vilmos Huszár (born January 5, 1884 in Budapest , Hungary , † 1960 in Harderwijk , Netherlands ), (actually Vilmos Herz , since 1904 Huszár ) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was a co-founder of the Dutch group de Stijl (1917–1931).

Huszár first learned to be a wall decorator at the Budapest art school , then attended the Munich Art Academy from 1904 and moved to the Netherlands in 1909 , where he lived and worked in Voorburg until 1939 . From 1939 he lived and worked in Hierden near Harderwijk .

Between 1915 and 1916 he experimented with cubist design methods, and from 1916 he developed his first designs for glass windows. The first abstract constructions began in 1917.

In 1917, together with Theo van Doesburg , Piet Mondrian , Georges Vantongerloo , JJP Oud and Bart van der Leck, he founded the artist group de Stijl , which was named after a magazine of the same name by van Doesburg. Already in 1918 there were first conflicts with van Doesburg over the color scheme for Robert van 't Hoff interiors in his houseboat . In between 1918 and 1919 a number of indoor facilities also emerged as well from 1919 interior designs , for example for the photo studio Berssenbrugge in The Hague. Among other things, Huszár took part in exhibitions with his Stijl colleagues in Berlin and Paris , and the first international contacts developed. From 1925 on, Huszár mainly worked as a graphic designer for advertising and industry. In 1926 he developed the complete design for the "Miss Blanche Virginia" cigarette. From 1927 he devoted himself increasingly to painting, from 1939 onwards he increasingly developed designs for pieces of furniture that were built by the company Metz and Co. When the Second World War broke out, Huszár withdrew to the small town of Hierden, where he felt safer as a Jew. In the following years he devoted himself in his painting to the surrounding area in a naturalistic style. From 1955 until his death he turned to non-representational art.

Vilmos Huszár died in 1960.

literature

  • Carsten-Peter Warncke: De Stijl. 1918 - 1931. Cologne 1990

Individual evidence

  1. "Vilmos Huszár" - Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Web links

Commons : Vilmos Huszár  - collection of images, videos and audio files