(two men with felled tree and oxen from Erdelyi Album,Tizenket Eredeti Fametszet by Ferenc Bordás
(two men with felled tree and oxen from Erdelyi Album,Tizenket Eredeti Fametszet
Ferenc Bordás
Title
(two men with felled tree and oxen from Erdelyi Album,Tizenket Eredeti Fametszet
Artist
Ferenc Bordás
1911 - 1982 (biography)Year
1942
Technique
woodengraving
Image Size
8 9/16 x 10 9/16" mage size
Signature
pencil, lower center
Edition Size
250
Annotations
pencil dated 1942 XII (December)
Reference
Paper
buff wove
State
published
Publisher
Kiralyi Egyetemi Mymoda (Royal University Press, Budapest)
Inventory ID
21563
Price
$400.00
Description
One of twelve images Bordas created for the artist's book "Erdelyi Album", a series of woodengravings illustrating the daily life of Transylvanians. Published in 1943, the album was dedicated to Gyula Ortutay, a Hungarian ethnographer and politician who served as Minister of Religion and Education during the Communist regime, between the years 1947 and 1950.
Ferenc Bordás was born in Temesvar, Hungary (now Timisoara, Romania) in 1911. He was a student of György Buday and Vilmos Aba-Novák at the Szeged Young People's College of Art, where he learned printmaking, specializing in woodcut. He went on to graphic design, and was known for his ex-libris for book collectors. Ferenc Bordás died in Budapest, Hungary in 1982.