Jolán Szilágyi

Jolán Szilágyi (15 June 1895, Székelyudvarhely - 8 July, 1971, Budapest), was a Hungarian painter, graphic artist and cartoonist.

She married Tibor Szamuely.[1] During the Hungarian Soviet Republic Tibor was People's Commissar for Military Affairs and Jolán produced political posters, such as Minden gyárnak legyen munkászászlóalja! (Every factory should have a workers' battalion!).[2] When the Republic was overthrown, she went into exile spending time in Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union, before returning to Hungary in 1948.[3]

In 1921-1922 she was studying at VKhUTEMAS, the art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow. When Béla Uitz and Alfréd Kemény attended the 3rd Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, they met with Szilágyi who introduced them to El Lissitzky.[4]

References
  1. "Szilágyi Jolán művei, könyvek, használt könyvek". Antikvarium.hu (in Hungarian). Antikvarium hu. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  2. "Every factory should have a workers' battalion!". Budapest Poster Gallery. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  3. "Szilágyi Jolán". artportal.hu (in Hungarian). Artportal. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  4. 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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