Scena9 Exhibition Reclaims Mattis Teutsch's Overlooked Constructive Realist Period
Curated by Szilárd Miklós, an exhibition at Scena9 in Bucharest reevaluates the later works of János Mattis Teutsch. Entitled 'Mattis Teutsch: Avant-Garde and Constructive Realism,' it was open from September 12 to October 25, 2019, before transitioning to the Lajos Kassák Museum in Budapest, where it remained until May 3, 2020. The showcase includes 32 figurative paintings created from the 1930s onward, shifting the focus away from his avant-garde era. Teutsch, a Hungarian-German-Romanian artist, was influential in early 20th-century expressionism but withdrew from the public eye in the 1930s. His later work, characterized by 'constructive realism,' involved collaboration with Romania's communist regime. The exhibition is supported by research from Tibor Almási and features loans from the artist's grandson and Romanian collections. Teutsch passed away in 1960.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Mattis Teutsch: Avant-Garde and Constructive Realism' at Scena9, Bucharest, September 12 – October 25, 2019.
- Curated by artist Szilárd Miklós, featuring 32 works from the 1930s onward.
- Show traveled to Lajos Kassák Museum, Budapest, until May 3, 2020.
- János Mattis Teutsch was a Hungarian-German-Romanian painter from Brașov, active in early 20th-century avant-garde circles.
- His later 'constructive realism' period began in early 1940s, moving from expressionist abstraction to figurative works.
- Teutsch was expelled from a Brașov art group in the 1930s for insufficient support of the fascist Iron Guard.
- He created uncommissioned portraits of Lenin (1951) and Stalin (1949) and petitioned to rename Brașov to Stalin City in 1950.
- Research for exhibition based on 30-year study by Hungarian art historian Tibor Almási, author of 'The Other Mattis Teutsch'.
Entities
Artists
- János Mattis Teutsch
- Szilárd Miklós
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Franz Marc
- Paul Klee
- Sigmund Maur
- M.H. Maxy
- Jules Perahim
- Aurel Marculescu
- Milița Pătrașcu
- Oscar Han
- Irene Lukasz
- Ferdinand Hodler
- James Ensor
- Mircea Nicolae
- Rudolf Steiner
- Olga Stefan
Institutions
- Scena9
- Lajos Kassák Museum
- Brașov Art Museum
- Szekler National Museum
- MissionArt
- National Museum of Art
- Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania
- Rampa
- Der Sturm
- Contimporanul
- Ma
- Scînteia
- Arta
- Régió Art Publishing House
- ARTMargins Online
- Rampa newspaper
Locations
- Bucharest
- Romania
- Brașov
- Hungary
- Germany
- Budapest
- Paris
- France
- Sfântu Gheorghe
- Győr
- Switzerland
- Belgium
Sources
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