[Bela Uitz: The Creative Path]. Bela Uitz: Tvorcheskii put’.

Edited by Ivan Matsa [János Mácza].
Designed by Sergeeva.

Moskva-Leningrad, Izogiz-Krasnyi proletarii, 1932.
8vo, 75 pp., ill.

In original pictorial wrappers.
Repaired to spine and front cover, light wear to wrappers, light dampstain and small ink staining to front cover.

This is the first lifetime monograph about the Hungarian painter Béla Uitz (1887-1972) in any language. One of 5 000 copies printed. 

Uitz was a leading figure in modern Hungarian painting. He studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and later became closely associated with Lajos Kassák and the avant-garde Activists. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he became a member of the Directorate of Art. After 1920, he had to leave Hungary and moved to the Soviet Union in 1926, where he became a professor at VKhUTEMAS. His first exhibition in Russia took place from December 1926 to January 1927. Uitz was instrumental in founding the October Group, a collective of constructivist artists active from 1928 to 1932. In 1930, under his initiative, the International Bureau of Revolutionary Artists was organized. He created murals for theaters and government buildings in Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, and Russia, though many of his projects were never realized. He returned to Hungary only in 1970.
The book was edited by art critic and historian Ivan Matsa (János Mácza; 1893-1974). Born in Hungary, Mácza emigrated to the USSR in 1923. He taught at Moscow State University and was also a member of the October Group. Mácza was one of the founders of the All-Union Association of Proletarian Architects.

OCLC locates five copies in the USA (New York Public Library, Frick Art Reference Library, Harvard University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the University of Michigan Library) and one copy in The National Széchényi Library (Hungary).