Imre Jakabffy (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 4. (Budapest, 1976)

IVÁNFY-BAL0GH, Sára - JAKABFFY, Imre: Géza R. Maróti

His design of monumental size for the mosaic competition of the Chicago Radio City is preserved in our Museum. It can be said of it being a rarity of the history of civilization, because — as we know — the word TELEVISION occurs first on a work of art only a year or two after beginning of television experimentings as equivalent idea of the telecommunication with the press and radio, accompanied by aeronautics, flying, railway and motor-car. On a with allegorical figures somewhat crowded mosaic design Maróti sets in rows the great foregoers' and illustrious contemporaries' names, considering them worthy of being in the Pantheon of universal civilization, so among others Gauss, Edison, Faraday, Einstein, Pasteur, Newton. By their side can be found the name of the

1 H iingarian physicist Eötvös but he gives place to Ford, Mussolini, Rockefeller, Toseanini, Jeritza, Garbo, Lindbergh, while the letters ELI SAA are surely to complete Eliel Saarinen (Figs. 16, 17). In co-operation with Albert Kahn conies into being the Livingstone Memorial at Belle Isle near Detroit. The sculptural works in marble and bronze on the column of the lighthouse are made by Maróti. The American, successes brought him the honorary membership of the Michigan Society of Architects. Two years after his own studio exhibition he arranged one in the Detroit Institute of Arts Gallery, where not only the Near East drawings but also his wood-reliefs made sensation and were generally approved. 15. DESIGN OF RELIEF-DECORATION FOR 16. DETAIL-DRAWING FOR THE MOSAIC BUILDINGS IN U.S.A. (1930) COMPETITION OF THE RADIO CITY ( I 932) 144