Vilmos Huszár

Vilmos Huszár ( born January 5, 1884 in Budapest, Hungary, † 1960 in Harderwijk, The Netherlands) (actually Vilmos heart, since 1904 Huszár ) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was co-founder of the Dutch group De Stijl ( 1917-1931 ).

Huszár first learned at the Budapest art school wall decorator, then attended from 1904 the Art Academy in Munich and moved in 1909 to the Netherlands, where he lived and worked until 1939 in Voorburg. From 1939 he lived and worked in Hierden to Harderwijk.

Between 1915 and 1916 he experimented with cubist forms of design, from 1916 he developed the first designs for stained glass windows. First abstract designs originated from 1917.

In 1917 he founded together with Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Georges Vantongerloo, JJP Oud and Bart van der Leck, the artist group De Stijl, which was named after an eponymous magazine of van Doesburg. Already in 1918 there was the first conflict with van Doesburg because of the color scheme for Robert van ' t Hoff interiors in the houseboat. In the years from 1918 to 1919 resulted in several indoor facilities, and from 1919 also interior designs, for example, the photo studio Berssenbrugge in The Hague. Among other Huszár also participated in exhibitions of his Stijl colleagues in Berlin and Paris, it developed the first international contacts. From 1925 Huszár worked primarily as a graphic designer for advertising and industry. From 1927 he devoted himself to painting, from 1939 emerged reinforced designs for furniture pieces that were built by Metz and Co..

In 1960, Vilmos Huszár died.

• Part biography ( 1939-1960 )
• Art and meaning