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Reflecting the wide-ranging practices and the experimental teaching methods of the institution that Walter Gropius founded in 1919, From Budapest to the Bauhaus brings together László Moholy-Nagy's rarely seen photographs and abstract constructions; El Lissitzky's typographic designs; and Farkas Molnár's constructivist theater studies, while mapping the connections between the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau and the 1920s Hungarian avant-garde, said the organisers of the exhibition which draws on the collection of the Erdész Gallery in Szentendre.
Other artists represented in the exhibition include Sándor Bortnyik, Wassily Kandinsky, Gyula Pap and Henrik Stefan.
In connection with the exhibition, a symposium called Hungary and the Bauhaus 1919-1933 will be take place at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on November 20. The symposium will survey the extensive participation of Hungarians in Bauhaus activities such as photography, graphics, furniture, textiles, product design, film, music, and performance art. Lectures will outline the geopolitical context of avant-garde activity in Hungary before, during, and after the Bauhaus years and present new perspectives on figures such as László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, and Andor Weininger.
Leading the symposium sessions will be Juliet Kinchin, curator for MOMA's Department of Architecture and Design, and Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MOMA.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
