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

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

12. DESIGN FOR THE MURAL FOR THE CSEPEL WORKER'S CLCB (1918) In the days of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republie (1919) they would make the May Day's celebration never-to-be-forgotten and number of artists had been mobilized for contribution to the splendor of the Budapest festival. Maróti designed and led the ornamentation of the Town-park. He drained the lake for arranging an artistic and picturesque archipelago in the middle of the refilled lake. He was being united by friendship's bonds during his lifetime with the world-famed Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. He was sojourning in Saarinen's home in Finland before the first war in such a friend circle as the painter Axeli Gallen Kallela, the composer JanSibelius, the Swedish painter and draughtsman Anders Zorn. Maxim Gorki belonged as well to Saarinen's intimate friends. They had paid Gorki a visit at Capri in 1913. The Saarinens were more than once guests of Maróti's rural house in Zebegény. This cottage had been planned by himself and executed by craftsmen of the place. Now the ravishing-situated, the Danube overlooking villa is used for maternity centre, some parts of it are preserved, thus the so called golden eared arch in the hall, reminiscence of the Milan exhibition. Ml