Kálmán Kubinyi
Kálmán Mátyás Béla Kubinyi (June 29, 1906 Cleveland – September 3, 1973 Stockbridge, Massachusetts) was an influential etcher, engraver and enamelist and a member of the so-called Cleveland School, a number of relatively prominent artists in Northeast Ohio that existed from about 1910 to 1960.[1]
Kubinyi was a modernist whose interpretations of the machine age through "ash can" subjects and industrial scenes often bear the stamp of
Biography
As a child he attended art classes taught by William Zorach, later graduating from the Cleveland School of Art in 1926 and briefly engaging in further art studies in Munich.
Kubinyi supervised the graphic arts division of the Works Progress Administration in Cleveland from 1935 until 1939, when the W.P.A. named him to head the entire Cleveland W.P.A. arts project. During the 1930s, Kubinyi reportedly engaged in politics as a member of the Communist Party USA, and taught printmaking at the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art), the Cleveland Museum of Art and the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute.[3]
Kubinyi founded the Cleveland Print Makers in 1930 and served as its president for 11 years. In 1932, the group established the "Print-a-Month" series, the first of its kind in visual art, and apparently modeled on the 1926
Between 1930 and 1948 Kubinyi took top prizes on five occasions at the Cleveland Museum of Art's May Show, an annual event which helped to define the Cleveland School over much of its life. He exhibited at the show in various media over a nearly 30-year period, beginning in 1928.
At age the age of 27, Kubinyi married
Kubinyi reportedly once said of his collaboration with Hall, "Control of color, design and most of the application of the enamel is done by Doris. I beat out the large sculptural forms, the metal forming, fabrication, ground coats, compounding of enamels, spraying and burning of undercoats. I take the brunt of the preparation."[2]
During the 1940s, Kubinyi and his wife opened a gallery and studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts. They later opened a studio/gallery in downtown Boston, and finally a studio in Stockbridge, where Kubinyi also directed the art department for Hans Maeder's Stockbridge School.
Today Kubinyi's work is found in various private collections and in several museums and other public venues, including the
See also
- Ashcan School
- Cleveland Artists Foundation
References
- ^ "The Cleveland School". Archived from the original on 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
- ^ a b http://www.clevelandart.org/educef/art2go/pdf/ArtistsOfOurRegion.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Kubinyi, Kalman". 11 May 2018.
- ^ "The Inflation Calculator". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2017-04-23.
- ^ "Ink HP Printers Axis". 8 June 2022.
- ^ "Kalman Kubinyi Online".
- ^ "Search the Collection".
External links
- Art For Everyone: Cleveland Printmakers And The WPA
- Works of Kalman Kubinyi at Cleveland Public Library