Balázs Eszter: Art in action. Lajos Kassák's Avant-Garde Journals from A Tett to Dokumentum, 1915-1927 - The avant-garde and its journals 3. (Budapest, 2017)

Merse Pál Szeredi: Kassákism - MA in Vienna (1920-1925)

[31.] Reproduction of Walter Gropius’ architectural design, MA, 9/5., 1924, [3.], Vienna [32. Reproductions of Gert Caden’s sculptures, MA, 8/5-6., [5.], Vienna

also came into closer contact with the Bauhaus school in Weimar, where a number of Hungarian students and professors worked, among them Farkas Molnár and László Moholy-Nagy.37

In the 1924-1925 issues of MA, the functionalist concept of Constructivism promoted by the Bauhaus played an increasingly important role: modern architecture, technical innovations and design. [Figs. 30-31] Kassák dedicated thematic issues to the buildings and urbanist plans of Farkas Molnár, Walter Gropius, Arthur Korn and the young Silesian architects' group Das junge Schlesien, based in Wroclaw. In his spring 1925 programmatic text Éljünk a mi időnkben [Let us Live in Our Times], Kassák promoted the “new unity" of technology and art, similar to the Bauhaus. Kassák termed artists as “restless inventors" and “guards of construction", and proposed the improvement of

37 For more details, see Éva Bajkay (ed.), Von Kunst zu Leben, Die Ungarn am Bauhaus [Art into life, Hungarians in the Bauhaus], Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 2010. András Ferkai, Molnár Farkas, Tere, Budapest, 2011.

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