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- George Mayer-Marton
- Also known as
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George Mayer-Marton
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primary name: Mayer-Marton, George
- Details
- individual; printmaker; Austro-Hungarian; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1897-1960
- Biography
- Painter, mural and mosaic artist, illustrator and teacher.
Born in Gyor, Hungary. Served in the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI and after, in 1919, studied at the Academies of Art in Vienna and Munich. From 1924 became a significant figure in Vienna, where he held a senior position in the Hagenbund, a leading society of artists; his work was acquired by galleries in Budapest, Vienna, Brussels, Prague and Rome. He married the pianist, Grete Fried in 1923 and they lived in Vienna until 1938 when they fled to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. He taught at St Johns Wood School of Art, but his studio and work were destroyed in the Blitz in 1940. Between 1940 and 1950 he lectured for the Arts Council, and following the death of his wife became senior lecturer in painting at Liverpool College of Art, 1952 until his death in 1960. While in Liverpool he designed and executed several mural and mosaic commissions for schools and churches, including the Pentacost mosaic in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Memorial exhibitions were held at the Walker Art Gallery, 1961 and a retrospective in Vienna, 1986. The Derby Museum, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and the Walker Art Gallery are among the British galleries holding his work.
- Bibliography
- Regine Schmidt: Catalogue to the retrospective exhibition ' G.Mayer-Marton 1897-1960' Austrian National Gallery 1986