Vilmos Huszár, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vilmos Huszár

Hungarian painter and designer

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1884

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 08-Sep-1960

Profession: graphic designer, painter, resistance fighter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Vilmos Huszár

  • Vilmos Huszár (1884–1960) was a Hungarian painter and designer.
  • He lived in The Netherlands, where he was one of the founder members of the art movement De Stijl. Huszár was born in Budapest, Hungary.
  • He emigrated to The Netherlands in 1905, settling at first in Voorburg.
  • He was influenced by Cubism and Futurism.
  • He met other influential artists including Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, both central figures in establishing the De Stijl movement with Huszár in 1917.
  • Huszár also co-founded the De Stijl magazine and designed the cover for the first issue. In 1918 he designed interior colour schemes for the bedroom of Bruynzeel house in Voorburg.
  • From 1920 to 1921 he collaborated with Piet Zwart on furniture designs.
  • He left the De Stijl group in 1923.
  • He collaborated with Gerrit Rietveld on an exhibition interior for the Greater Berlin Art Exhibition.
  • From 1925, Huszár concentrated on graphic design and painting. In 1926 he created a complete visual identity for Miss Blanche Virginia cigarettes, which included packaging, advertising, and point of sale displays.
  • The concept drew on the imagery associated with the emergent "New Women", or Flappers.
  • The Flappers were perceived as young, single, urban, and employed, with independent ideas and a certain disdain for authority and social norms.
  • The smoking of cigarettes was closely associated with their newfound independence. The whereabouts of many of Huszár's works are unknown.
  • Many of his paintings and sculptures are only known through photographs that appeared in De Stijl, or from photographs taken by the artist himself.
  • Works that are lost include the Dancing mechanical doll, a device that could adopt several different postures and was used during Dada conferences in the early 1920s. Huszár died in the Dutch town Hierden in 1960. From 8 March to 19 May 1985 a large Huszár retrospective was held at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague.

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