| 词条 | Anna Lesznai |
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| name = Anna Lesznai | image = Lesznai Anna1.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Amália J. Moskowitz | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|1|3|df=y}} | birth_place = Budapest, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|10|2|1885|1|3|df=y}} | death_place = New York City, United States | nationality = American | other_names = | spouse = {{Marriage|Oszkár Jászi|1913|1918|reason=divorced}} Tibor Gergely | children = Andrew Jaszi, George Jaszi | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} Anna Lesznai (3 January 1885 – 2 October 1966) was a Hungarian-born American writer, painter, designer, and key figure in the Hungarian avant-garde. Life and workAmália 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 {{Interlanguage link multi|Lajos Hatvany|hu|3=Hatvany Lajos}} her cousin. She adopted the pen name of Anna Lesznai after the neighboring village of Leszna (today Lesné, Slovakia).[1] 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.[2] 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 discussion group known as the Sonntagskreis (“Sunday Circle”) and maintained close friendships with its two principal founders, Béla Balázs and György Lukács. Both were responsible for her appointment in April 1919, during the Hungarian Republic of Councils, to a position in the Ministry of Education where she was charged with developing a new national arts curriculum. Defying expectations for women of her time, Lesznai was bohemian in spirit and lifestyle. She married at the age of seventeen, bore a son, and then divorced soon after. In 1913 she married the sociologist and historian Oszkár Jászi, a leading figure in the Hungarian progressive movement and cabinet minister in the Hungarian Democratic Republic. Two sons who were later to become respected intellectuals in the United States resulted from the marriage: economist George Jászi (1915–1992), and the philosopher and Germanist Andrew Jaszi (1917–1998). Anna Lesznai and Oszkár Jászi divorced in 1918 but maintained a close lifelong friendship. In 1919 Lesznai emigrated to Vienna along with sons George and Andrew and her companion Tibor Gergely (1900–1978), an artist and illustrator fifteen years her junior whom she knew from the Sunday Circle. The couple eventually married and, faced with the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe, immigrated to the United States in 1939. Settling in New York City, Lesznai continued her work in art education, lecturing and teaching classes in Hungarian art and design. In 1946 she opened her own school of painting. Her autobiographical novel Kezdetben volt a kert (“In the Beginning was the Garden”), on which she worked for thirty years, was published in German translation in 1965 and in the original Hungarian the following year. With regard to the recent revival of interest in Lesznai’s life and work, Judith Szapor writes: “Young scholars, especially Petra Török and Csilla Markója […] consider the novel a masterpiece and argue that it should be valued equally for its historical sweep as a family saga, the psychological depth of her characters, and as a documentary source of the early-twentieth-century progressive scene it depicts.”[3] Anna Lesznai died on October 2, 1966 in New York City. A major retrospective of her art was mounted by the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest in 1976. A permanent exhibition at the Hatvany Lajos Múzeum commemorates her life and work. Works by Anna Lesznai (partial listing)
References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Loewy|first1=Hanno|title=Medium und Initiation. Béla Balázs: Märchen, Ästhetik, Kino|url=http://d-nb.info/958461252/34|pages=140}} 2. ^[https://www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/10527/painted-dreams-tales-fantasy-and-dreams-in-hungarian-art-of-the-early-twentieth-century/ Painted Dreams: Tales, fantasy and dreams in Hungarian art of the early twentieth century, Freud-Museum London 12 November 2003-18 January 2004] 3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Szapor|first1=Judith|title=Disputed Past: The Friendship and Competing Memories of Anna Lesznai and Emma Ritoók.|journal=AHEA: E-journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association|date=2012|volume=5|url=http://ahea.net/e-journal/volume-5-2012}} Further reading
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