Lukacsics!

Vértes Marcell

Erscheinungsdatum: 1919

Beschreibung

Size: Pre-war 2 Sheet (cca. 126 x 95 cm). Lukacsics is a 1919 original vintage Hungarian avant garde communist propaganda poster by Marcell Vertes The Hungarian Soviet Republic Progressive art and culture with social interest During the very short period 133 days of the Hungarian Soviet Republic the progressive and modern tendencies in art and literature became apparent and dominated the cultural policy In fact the modern and progressive Hungarian intelligentsia supported the new regime unanimously Behind this phenomenon lied many reasons The Hungarian Soviet Republic was established in the spring of 1919 peacefully without bloodshed unlike the Soviet Revolution in 1917 which lead to a civil war This fact gave the new state strong legitimacy In addition to the socialist ideology of the regime the nationalist emotions were also present since the country was about to continue the war to defend itself and its territorial integrity This meant that the new regime was able to represent the key although diverse opinions present in Hungarian society The social issues were a central question for many Hungarian artists groups since the 1910 s Some of them were avant garde groups with a strong leftist ideology in which they were similar to not just the Russian but to the western Avant garde like Expressionist and Dadaist artist groups The question of social relevance was present in the work of the writers of the main literary journal Nyugat West Socialist ideology was dominant in Gyorgy Georg Lukacs s philosophy circle Vas rnapi K r Sunday Circle as well Lajos Kassak published internationalist and leftist articles in his magazines A Tett Action and Ma Today His circle defined itself as Activist with which they referred to their efforts to achieve changes in the social system In 1917 the news of the Soviet Revolution has upset all of these groups Their terrible experiences of the World War One caused great disappointment and a strong desire for peace The modern artist groups had a common desire for a new system a new world new faith and new man The belief that after this terrible war a new world will arise got stronger and stronger Their envisioned new world was defined by equality which was to be achieved by the peaceful uprising of the lower classes As the poet and writer Gyula Juhasz phrased only the proletariat can create a new world a better one because it is truer The Hungarian Soviet Republic seemed to fulfil the wishes of the artists who all became prominent actors in its cultural policy making The focus of the new cultural policy was on the removal of the bourgeoisie s intellectual dominance culture should not be theirs but everyone s privilege To achieve this goal the new regime had to restructure the system from the elementary schools to the universities and museums Education became free and schools became public The art collections were expropriated new libraries were opened in the country The new system gave the workers a real chance to be educated The modernist intelligentsia held important positions in the new system Most of them played central roles in the reforming of cultural life That meant that after the fall of the short lived communist state most of them had to leave Hungary to avoid retaliation and they started a new career abroad and we can add this was an important factor in that many of them later became world famous Gyorgy Georg Lukacs the important philosopher and writer was a central figure in the cultural policy he became Commissar for Education and Culture In that position he controlled most cultural matters He was also a member of the Directory of Theatre where the famous writer aesthete and film critic Bela Balazs born Herbert Bauer was working as well The Directory of Film was led by S ndor Alexander Korda who later built his career as a film director in Hollywood In the Directory of Art most of the modernist artists became members Robert Bereny the young painter of Nyolcak The Eight Beni Ferenczy a famou. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 627

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Titel: Lukacsics!

Erscheinungsdatum: 1919

Einband: Paper, stone lithography.