Peter Laszlo Peri

Laszlo Peri, also: Peter Laszlo Peri, ( born June 13, 1889 in Budapest, † January 19, 1967 in London) was a Hungarian- British sculptor and engraver, who worked from 1920 to 1933 in Germany.

Life

Ladislas Weisz had to withdraw under nationalist pressure in Hungary Magyarize his name to László Peri, also in Germany and the UK, he gave the name of the local writing and speaking habits and eventually bore the name Peter ( Laszlo ) Peri.

Peri made ​​a bricklayer and began in 1918 to study sculpture in Budapest. After the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he emigrated in 1920 to the White terror to Paris and came to Berlin with a letter of recommendation Lajos Kassák. He began to tap into the concrete as a material for the visual arts. Herwarth Walden showed Peri together with works by Laszlo Moholy -Nagy. Constructivist concrete sculptures, wood sculptures, constructions and linocuts in exhibitions of gallery "Der Sturm " in the years 1922-1924 péris works were discussed in The Tempest 1921-1927 in the magazine. He was a member of the Communist Party and worked as an architect at the Berlin city building department from 1924 to 1928. In the second half of the 1920s he turned to the realistic - figurative sculpture. Peri was a member of the association was founded in 1928 revolutionary visual artist.

After the transfer of power to the Nazis, he was forced to emigrate for racist reasons to Britain, where he became in 1933 co-founded the Artists' International Association (AIA). Despite his political activity and its commitment to the Spanish Republic, he was naturalized in Great Britain in 1939. There he received a number of orders for the design of public space, so in 1960 for the opening of the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry Coventry commissioned sculpture.

John Berger's novel, A Painter of Our Time (1958 ) is inspired by the person Peris.

Literature / Exhibitions

  • Peri, László ( Ladislaus ). In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker et al: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 26, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, pp. 413-413.
  • Peri, László. In: Hans Vollmer: General Encyclopedia of Artists of the XX. Century. Vol 6 E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1962, pp. 337-337
  • Jane Turner ( ed. ): . The Dictionary of Art, Macmillan, London 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0 Vol 24, p 417F ( Grove Dictionary of Art )
  • Luise Maslow: Laszlo Peri. in: Antje Birthälmer; Gerhard Finckh (ed.): The storm: the center of the avant-garde. Wuppertal: Von-der- Heydt - Museum, 2012 ISBN 978-3-89202-081-3 348 pp.
  • Kristina Passuth: Why is "The Tempest" for Czech and Hungarian artists so important?. In: Andrea by Sleeve Esch and Gerhard Finckh (ed.): The Tempest: Essays. Wuppertal: Von-der- Heydt - Museum, 2012 ISBN 978-3-89202-082-0 pp. 483-496
  • Peter Peri, 10 Basel country: Schwabe, 2006
  • László Moholy -Nagy, Laszlo Peri. Bremen: Graph. Cabinet art trade Wolfgang Werner, 1987
  • Laszlo Peri, 1899-1967: Working in concrete: reliefs, sculptures, graphics. Exhibition. New Society for Fine Arts Berlin, Marl Sculpture Museum, 1982
  • Bloomsbury Galleries London 1933
  • Ernst Muzeum Budapest. 1931
  • Peri / Hilbersheimer / Nell Walden. In 1924. Der Sturm, Berlin
  • Moholy -Nagy / Peri. In 1923. Der Sturm, Berlin
  • Moholy -Nagy / Peri. In 1922. Der Sturm, Berlin
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