biografía de Ilonka KARASZ (1896-1981)

Lugar de nacimiento: Budapest, Hungary.

Direcciones: Immigrated to NYC c. 1915; Brewster, NY

Profesión: Designer, illustrator, painter, teacher

Estudios: Royal Sch. Arts & Crafts, Budapest

Exposiciones: S. Indp. A., 1920-22, 1936; Galerie de Braux, NYC, 1954 (her New Yorker covers); Fifty-50 Gal., NYC, 1984; The Machine Age in America," Brooklyn Mus., 1987"

Asociaciones: Woodstock AA

Obra: Woodstock AA; MMA

Comentarios: Pioneering modernist designer whose work included furniture, tea sets, dishes (some for Buffalo Pottery), geometric textiles, wallpapers, lighting, tiles, toys, theater and ballet set designs. Karasz designed over 186 covers for the New Yorker magazine, beginning in 1925. Her work was reproduced in Paul Frankl's Form and Reform (1930.

Fuentes: WW40; Rubinstein, American Women Sculptors, 257; addit. info. courtesy Woodstock AA