Anna Lesznai

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Anna Lesznai (3 January 1885 – 2 October 1966) was a Hungarian-born American writer, painter, designer, and key figure in the Hungarian avant-garde.

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Life and work Amália J. Moskowitz (familiarly known as Máli) was born in Budapest. She grew up in Alsókörtvélyes (now Nižný Hrušov, Slovakia) on the country estate belonging to her father Geyza Moskowitz, a physician who had served as personal secretary to Prime Minister Gyula Andrássy. Her mother, Hermina Hatvany, was a member of the Hatvany-Deutsch family, one of the leading ennobled Jewish families of Hungary. The art patron Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch was her uncle, the writer Lajos Hatvany her cousin. She adopted the pen name of Anna Lesznai after the neighboring village of Leszna (today Lesné, Slovakia). Multi-talented, she was recognized equally for her artwork and her writing. She studied art in Budapest with Károly Ferenczy and Simon Hollósy, later in Paris with Lucien Simon. In 1909 she joined the Constructivist-Expressionist group of Hungarian artists known as Nyolcak (“The Eight”), and in 1911 her work was shown as part of their second exhibition. Her painting and embroideries drew much of their inspiration from Hungarian folklore and folk art. Lesznai's early published writing includes essays, poetry, and original fairy tales. Beginning in 1908 she was a regular contributor to the literary journal Nyugat. She was also a member of the intellectual…Citește mai mult

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Selected works The Wanderings of the Little Blue Butterfly in Fairyland, with original drawings by Anna Lesznai. Trans. Caroline Bodóczky. Budapest: Corvina Kiadó 1978. Originally published 1912. ISBN 963 13 0618 6 "Babonás ézrevételek a mese és a tragédia lélektanához“ [“Superstitious Remarks on the Psychology of Fairy Tales and Tragedy”] in: Nyugat, H. 14 (1918) Wahre Märchen aus dem Garten Eden. [“True Fairy Tales from the Garden of Eden”]. Trans. András Hecker and Ilka Russy. Edited and with an afterword by Györgz Fehéri. Berlin: Verlag Das Arsenal, 2008. 129 pages. Kezdetben volt a kert [“In the Beginning was the Garden”]. German translation: Spätherbst in Eden, Trans. Ernst Lorsy. Karlsruhe: Stahlberg Verlag. 1965. 677 pages. Memoirs (unpublished). Extracts in: Éva Karádi, Erzsébet Vezér [Ed.]: "Georg Lukács, Karl Mannheim und der Sonntagskreis". Frankfurt am Main: Sendler. Pages 129–140.