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Children of Utopia ? ?From Art to Life?

Archív 2010. szeptember 2.

There is still something to be discovered in the area of Bauhaus, especially in Hungary. The movement was ended by the coming to power of the Nazis. After 1945, it went practically unnoticed in the East Bloc, and the archives of the movement in West Berlin were almost impossible for Hungarian scholars to reach. In the 80s, interest in the topic was rekindled and the importance of Hungarians ? many from the city of Pécs or the surrounding area - in the Bauhaus movement became apparent.

 
Pécs?s 2010 European Capital of Culture image, especially its logo for the year, based a design by Marcel Breuer, are defined by the Hungarians who were a part of the Weimar-based school that existed from 1919 until 1933. Modern architecture has been much influenced by the school, as have the industrial arts, fine arts and photography.
 
The exhibition?s curators, György Várkonyi and Éva Bajkay, have drawn on material from the 50-year-old Bauhaus Archive in Berlin as well as a show in Berlin last year organised to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the school. Among the pieces from the show in Berlin included in the exhibition in Pécs are models of houses by Farkas Molnár and Marcel Breuer.
 

Visitors to the exhibition will also see Breuer?s plans for chairs, experimental textile work by Otti Berger and a model for a spherical theatre by Andor Weininger. Margit Téry-Adler?s studies with materials and Gyula Pap?s original designs for jewelry have never before been on public display in Hungary.

 
The exhibition catalogue is the work of Zsolt Czakó.
 
Author: Eszter Götz