0344 Theo van Doesburg and the Hungarian Avant-Garde

Merse Pál Szeredi

doi:10.11588/riha.2026.1.114840

0344 Theo van Doesburg and the Hungarian Avant-Garde

Merse Pál Szeredi (Author)

Kassák Museum, Budapest

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5498-4745

Merse Pál Szeredi is an art historian and curator, as well as the director of the Kassák Museum in Budapest. His research focuses on early 20th-century Hungarian avant-gardes, with a special emphasis on the international networks of Lajos Kassák and his magazines. He has curated exhibitions at the Kassák Museum, the Petőfi Literary Museum, and the Virág Judit Gallery in Budapest, as well as at the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs. He has edited and co-edited several collections of essays, most recently Cannibalizing the Canon. Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe, Leiden: Brill, 2024, with Oliver A. I. Botar, Irina M. Denischenko, and Gábor Dobó. His papers are available at https://pim-hu.academia.edu/Szeredi.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/riha.2026.1.114840

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This article offers a micro-historical analysis of the contact between Theo van Doesburg, the Dutch avant-garde artist and editor of the periodical De Stijl (The Style), and Hungarian avant-garde artists associated with the periodical Ma (Today) – including Lajos Kassák, Sándor Bortnyik, László Moholy-Nagy, László Péri, and others – during the first half of the 1920s. Drawing on archival research in the Kassák and Van Doesburg estates, held respectively at the Kassák Museum in Budapest and the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History in The Hague, this article traces significant aspects of the international avant-garde networks in Europe in this period.

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