Béla Uitz

Béla Uitz (8 March 1887, Mehala, Roumania – 26 January 1972, Budapest) was a Hungarian painter and communist activist.

Béla Uitz in 1922

In 1907 he studied at the Hungarian National School of Applied Arts before moving on to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1908.[1]

He joined the Communist Party of Hungary who sent him with Alfréd Kemény to attend the 3rd Congress of the Communist International.[2] Whilst in Moscow he met Jolán Szilágyi, a Hungarian studying at VKhUTEMAS.[3]


He was the editor of Egység, a radical art journal published in Vienna and Berlin, 1922-1924. Aladár Komját was his co-editor.[3]

References
  1. "Uitz, Béla (1887 - 1972) - famous hungarian painter, graphic". kieselbach. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  2. Weibel, Peter (2005). Beyond Art: A Third Culture: A Comparative Study in Cultures, Art and Science in 20th Century Austria and Hungary. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-211-24562-0.
  3. Botar, Oliver A. I. (1993). "From the Avant-Garde to "Proletarian Art" The Emigre Hungarian Journals Egyseg and Akasztott Ember, 1922-23" (PDF). 52. Retrieved 26 June 2018. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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