Béla Uitz
Uitz Béla • Illustration — Béla Uitz in 1922 Béla Uitz (8 March 1887, Mehála, Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Timișoara, Romania) – 26 January 1972, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian painter, graphic artist and communist activist. In 1907 he studied at the Hungarian National School of Applied Arts before moving on to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1908. He was a contributor to the anarchist-pacifist magazine A Tett, published by Lajos Kassák 1915–1916.
Also recorded as Bela Uitz · Bela Fridrichovič Uitc
Béla Uitz
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- Born
- 1887 · Mehala.
- Died
- 1972 · Budapest.
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Occupation
- painter · graphic designer · graphic artist
- Education
- Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design · Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Languages
- Hungarian
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Uitz Béla • Illustration — Béla Uitz in 1922 Béla Uitz (8 March 1887, Mehála, Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Timișoara, Romania) – 26 January 1972, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian painter, graphic artist and communist activist. In 1907 he studied at the Hungarian National School of Applied Arts before moving on to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1908. He was a contributor to the anarchist-pacifist magazine A Tett, published by Lajos Kassák 1915–1916.
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After A Tett was suppressed by the authorities, Kassák launched MA in 1917 and Uitz joined the editorial team. He attended the "Russian Evening" organised by MA on 20 November 1920 in Vienna. This led him to rethink his political-artistic stance. In "Jegyzetek a 'Ma' orosz estélyéhez" (Notes on MAs Russian evening) an article published in MA he was very critical of the Russian Proletkult movement which he viewed as an obstacle to the parallel progress of the material and spiritual revolution he envisaged. Nevertheless, he later developed a more sympathetic view of Proletkult. He then joined the Communist Party of Hungary who sent him with Alfréd Kemény to attend the 3rd Congress of the Communist International. Whilst in Moscow he met Jolán Szilágyi, a Hungarian studying at VKhUTEMAS. He was the editor of Egység, a radical art journal published in Vienna and Berlin, 1922–1924. Aladár Komját was his co-editor.
The authorities additionally record the headings Bela Uitz and Bela Fridrichovič Uitc. His recorded language was Hungarian. Other recorded relations include Lajos Kassák.
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1887
Béla Uitz born at Mehala.
1972
Béla Uitz died at Budapest.
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Béla Uitz is recorded as having studied at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
Institute of Contemporary Art. Its facade decorated with a bronze relief of Béla Uitz by Tibor Borbás (1984 works) - Vasmű Street, Belváros neighborhood, Dunaújváros, Fejér County, Hungary.
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- 1.Uitz, Béla (1887 - 1972) - famous hungarian painter, graphic. kieselbach.
- 2.Szabó, Júlia. A Magyar Aktivizmus Művészete, 1915-1927. Corvina. 1981. 9789631309126.
- 3.Kassák Múzeum Lajos Kassák (1887-1967). Kassak Museum.
- 4.Weibel, Peter. Beyond Art: A Third Culture: A Comparative Study in Cultures, Art and Science in 20th Century Austria and Hungary. Springer Science & Business Media. 2005. 978-3-211-24562-0.
- 5.Botar, Oliver A. I. From the Avant-Garde to "Proletarian Art" The Emigre Hungarian Journals Egyseg and Akasztott Ember, 1922-23. 52. 1993.
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