Item #637 Magyar Grafika. X. év 7–8. szám. Különszám: Reklameschau. [Hungarian Graphic. Year 10. No. 7–8. Special number: Reklam-schau.]. Miklós Biró.
Cover by Bortnyik

Magyar Grafika. X. év 7–8. szám. Különszám: Reklameschau. [Hungarian Graphic. Year 10. No. 7–8. Special number: Reklam-schau.]

Budapest: Magyar Grafika, (1929). With numerous illustrations. First edition. Text in Hungarian and German. In original, illustrated wrappers. Cover designed by Sándor Bortnyik. (2), 173–224, XIII–XVIII p. In fine condition.

Double number of the most important Hungarian typographical review. This issue is dealing with advertisement, and contains several modernist typographical examples.

Cover designed by Sándor Bortnyik (1893–1976) the Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Member of Kassák’s artistic circles. Exhibited his activist, cubist and constructivist works at MA’s exhibitions in Budapest and in Berlin in the Galerie Der Sturm as well. In 1922 Bortnyik went to Weimar where he got connected with the Bauhaus. Worked as stage designer for the Hungarian Avant-garde theater, the “Zöld Szamár” (Green Donkey). Edited the Avant-garde periodical “Új Föld” (New Earth).

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