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LESZNAI, Anna
LESZNAI, Anna
(Alsókörtvélyes, 3rd January, 1885 – New York, 2nd October, 1966)
1904–1907: the school of Sándor Bihari; 1904–1907: Sample Drawing School, pupil of Károéy Ferenczy; 1907: the private school of Simon Lucien, Paris; 1912: Kunstgewerbeschule, Berlin; 1920: Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna. Lesznai was a multifold personality: besides her fine and applied arts practice, her poetic, novelist and teaching career was also of great significance. Her early career was characterized by her interest in and utilization of the elements of folk art, especially the graphical and textile works rooted in the “matyó” culture /group of peasants living in or near Mezőkövesd/. She gained her popularity after 1908, especially due to the fairy tales, and related images embroideries, and cover-designs prepared by her during the course of the 1910’s and 1920’s. By the end of the 1930’s her constructive style based on ornaments, composed of decorative forms, was replaced by naturalistic painting method quite alien of her personality. In 1939 Lesznai emigrated to the United States, where she dealt primarily with education. Her fine arts career bore little significance from then onwards. During the summer of 1939 she lead a camp in Sandusky, Ohio. Between 1939 and 1942 she held a series of lecturers on the art of composition and design in Boston, Cambridge, then at the Wellesley College near Boston, and the Laurence Street School of New York. After 1945 she also taught nerve-patients with therapeutic goals and upheld her private school until 1961, 1962. Her autobiographical work entitled Kezdetben volt a kert /In the beginning there was the garden/, which she worked upon for decades, was published in 1966, with a self-designed cover.
[Moscovitz Amália of Zemplén]
Painter, Graphic Artist, Applied Artist(Alsókörtvélyes, 3rd January, 1885 – New York, 2nd October, 1966)
1904–1907: the school of Sándor Bihari; 1904–1907: Sample Drawing School, pupil of Károéy Ferenczy; 1907: the private school of Simon Lucien, Paris; 1912: Kunstgewerbeschule, Berlin; 1920: Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna. Lesznai was a multifold personality: besides her fine and applied arts practice, her poetic, novelist and teaching career was also of great significance. Her early career was characterized by her interest in and utilization of the elements of folk art, especially the graphical and textile works rooted in the “matyó” culture /group of peasants living in or near Mezőkövesd/. She gained her popularity after 1908, especially due to the fairy tales, and related images embroideries, and cover-designs prepared by her during the course of the 1910’s and 1920’s. By the end of the 1930’s her constructive style based on ornaments, composed of decorative forms, was replaced by naturalistic painting method quite alien of her personality. In 1939 Lesznai emigrated to the United States, where she dealt primarily with education. Her fine arts career bore little significance from then onwards. During the summer of 1939 she lead a camp in Sandusky, Ohio. Between 1939 and 1942 she held a series of lecturers on the art of composition and design in Boston, Cambridge, then at the Wellesley College near Boston, and the Laurence Street School of New York. After 1945 she also taught nerve-patients with therapeutic goals and upheld her private school until 1961, 1962. Her autobiographical work entitled Kezdetben volt a kert /In the beginning there was the garden/, which she worked upon for decades, was published in 1966, with a self-designed cover.
