Haiman György (szerk.): Kner Imre emléke 1890-1990 (Békéscsaba–Gyomaendrőd, 1990)

Chronological Table

Around 1915 -1916 - joined the “Vasárnapi Kör” (Sunday Circle) where he made friends with Béla Balázs, Anna Lesznai, Georg Lukács, Béla Fogarasi and Karl Mannheim, among others.

June 1916 - Béla Balázs visited Gyoma, subsequent to which several of his volumes appeared at the Kner company. The books were designed by Imre Kner, contributors were József Divéky and Lajos Kozma.

1916 - Imre Kner published an article in the “Könyvtári Szemle” (Library Review) in which he passionately attacked the backward and commercialized, anti-cultural attitude of Hungarian publishers and booksellers.

April 29, 1917 - he married Etel Kulka in Budapest.

1918 - the summer he spent with Lajos Kozma at Selmecbánya discussing the revival of the traditions of Hungarian bookprinting. They made experiments with the design of a calendar the set of which Kner made at the Joerges printing house at Selmecbánya, while Kozma drew headpieces wh ich were later cut in wood. The calendar was published in the 1919 issue of the “Kner Almanach” (Yearbook).

1918 - Imre Kner was in search of a publisher’s reader to help him realize his publishing plans. Dezső Szabó rejected the commission as well as Kner’s harsh criticism of his novel “Elsodort falu” (The village that was swept away).

1918 - gave an interview on his readings in “Könyvek Könyve” (A Book on Books) by Béla Kőhalmi.

From November 3,1918 on-duringthe “Michaelmas Daisy Revolution”, he was a notary of the National Council at Gyoma.

1919 - in the early part of the year he published a brochure under the title “Ipari nevelés és iparművészet” (Industrial education and applied art) in which he presented the training of professionals as an indispensable condition of development.

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