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DOI Artikel:Piotrowski, Piotr; Wilczyński, Marek [Übers.]: Modernism and totalitarism II: myths of geometry: neo-constructivism in Central Europe 1948 - 1970
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28179#0129
MODERNISM AND TOTALITARIANISM II
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14. Lajos Kassak, “Monumental”, 1966, National Gallery of Art, Budapest
his significant idea of Bildarchitektur. Although after several years some
of the emigres returned (with the exception of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy) and
resumed their artistic careers in Hungary, Admirał Horthy’s regime
would often interfere with their pursuits, particularly that their art be-
came much morę directly political. That was, according to Beke, the
beginning of ąuite a long phase two of the development of constructivism
in Hungary.42 For a younger generation of artists, Kassak, who came
back from Vienna in 1926, became a paragon of morał virtue and social
42 Ibid.
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14. Lajos Kassak, “Monumental”, 1966, National Gallery of Art, Budapest
his significant idea of Bildarchitektur. Although after several years some
of the emigres returned (with the exception of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy) and
resumed their artistic careers in Hungary, Admirał Horthy’s regime
would often interfere with their pursuits, particularly that their art be-
came much morę directly political. That was, according to Beke, the
beginning of ąuite a long phase two of the development of constructivism
in Hungary.42 For a younger generation of artists, Kassak, who came
back from Vienna in 1926, became a paragon of morał virtue and social
42 Ibid.