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)

Márton Pacsika: Purposeful Player of the New Instrument - Lajos Kassák and the Budapest MA

and writers in the country, as well as with young people. One outcome of this activity that turned out to be useful for both the journal and the avant-garde movement was the identification artistic prototypes. It also helped Kassák towards the legitimization that he lacked in the early period. The occasional appearance of the 19th-century poet János Arany and the modernist painters Károly Kernstok and János Vaszary, despite jarring with the journal’s profile, became an important adjunct to articles and pictures by radical young artists. The same subtle balance showed up in the exhibition programme of the MA gallery: in addition to new young artists like János Kmetty, Pál Pátzay, and Sándor Bortnyik, it featured artistic predecessors of MA such as Ede Bohacsek and Sándor Galimberti and well-known painters such as Lajos Tihanyi.9 [Figs. 5-7]

[5.] Sándor Bortnyik, Vörös mozdony [Red Locomotive], 1918, oil on cardboard, 44*33,5 cm, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest

[6.] Ede Bohacsek, Tájkép [Landscape], 1913, oil on canvas, 95*100 cm, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

9 Kassák involved several members of the Nyolcak painters' group. Lajos Tihanyi had a solo exhibition in the MA gallery, and Róbert Berény and Károly Kernstok had works published in the journal.

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