The Quill journal

Berény Róbert

Publication Date: 1930

About this Item

Size: Book (cca. 16 x 23 cm). R bert Ber ny was one of the greatest masters of Hungarian poster art and he was equally important as a painter as well He was a member of the most significant Hungarian avant garde painter group the Eight Nyolcak In 1919 he designed the well known propaganda poster To Arms To Arms for the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 After the fall of the regime like numerous other people who were found guilty for propagating the leftist movement was forced to emingration He spent a few years in Berlin then in 1925 the Hungarian government declared amnesty for everyone involved with the Soviet system thus Ber ny could return to his homeland Similarly to his friend and colleague S ndor Bortnyik he did not cease painting but it was hard to make a living as a painter Being exceptionally talented they both got numerous commissions as graphic designers to create advertisements what provided them possibility to earn their subsistence Ber ny applied constructivism and Bauhaus on his commercial posters Him and Bortnyik were the leading figures of the modernist trends in Hungarian poster art Ber ny s modernist posters are outstanding works of the age and are known world wide The modernist style is also apparent on the cover of this magazine A Toll was a radical pro reform urban weekly journal that existed between 1929 and 1938 It was a literary magazine established by P l Ignotus Great authors contributed to it Lajos Nagy Frigyes Karinthy S ndor M rai Dezs Kosztol nyi Lajos Zilahy Attila J zsef Zolt n Somly etc.

Seller Inventory # 3947

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Quill journal
• Publication Date: 1930
• Binding: Paper, letterpress.
• Condition: Fine, light wear, stains.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Deco and Modernism (1920 - 1944)