BORTNYIK SANDOR Bortnyik Album MA 1921

Sale 1972 - Lot 41

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HUNGARIAN AVANT-GARDE BORTNYIK, SANDOR. Bortnyik Album MA 1921. 6 brightly colored Cubist serigraphs, each signed and numbered by bortnyik in pencil, 470x390 mm, sheets. Folio, loose as issued in stiff lettered folder with text by Lajos Kassák on inside front cover; original paper folder with printed title. one of 140 numbered copies with signed serigraphs by bortnyik. Cologne, 1970

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A scarce portfolio by Hungarian painter and graphic artist Bortnyik, founder of the group "MA." His early Cubist-Expressionist linocuts inspired by revolutionary ideas dominated his work around 1918. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he was forced to emigrate to Weimar, were he was greatly influenced by the Bauhaus movement and became friends with its members. He returned to Hungary in 1925 and founded a school for poster design in 1928. By the mid-1930s, his art had undergone a radical change of content and style, focusing on workers, peasants and circus showmen.