April 1943. To mark a move by the Hungarian Club to new premises at
33 Pembridge Square, London W2, the emigre critic and publisher
Charles Rosner organised a graphics show including work by 14
Hungarian-born artists living in Britain, all but one of whom were
to be granted British citizenship. The 14 were: Joseph Bato,
painter and art director; Klara Biller, illustrator; Val Biro,
illustrator and author; George Buday, illustrator and organiser;
Imre Goth, painter and inventor; Imre Hofbauer, illustrator and
author; Peter Lambda, sculptor; Lili Markus, ceramist; George
Mayer-Marton, painter and teacher; Henry Ripszam, painter and
sculptor; Jean-Georges Simon, painter and teacher; Istvan
Szegedi-Szuts, painter and author; Paul Vincze, medallist; Akos
Zsoter, painter. All found haven of a sort in Britain, although
George Buday, denied citizenship by MI5's false allegation of
Communist sympathies, suffered a nervous breakdown when Moscow
crushed the October 1956 uprising. To mark 75 years from the
original show, and the centenary of Armistice Day, Robert
Waterhouse followed the tracks of all 14 artists from Glasgow to
Penzance via London, Vienna and Budapest, turning up archives,
working through family collections and searching the vaults of
public galleries. He came across long-lost images, unpublished
diaries, memoirs and out-of-print titles which flesh out
caricatures of exile, showing how each artist came to terms with
British life, making a living and an individual mark. Seven of the
14 had fought as Austro-Hungarian conscripts in the First World
War. Driven from their homeland by the punitive terms of the 1920
Treaty of Trianon, then pushed from Berlin, Prague and Vienna by
the rise of the Third Reich, their arrival in London, where they
were treated as enemy aliens, was anything but auspicious. Yet they
survived. The anthology rediscovers a forgotten
generation-and-a-half whose contribution to our national culture as
Hungaro-Brits has clear messages for today's Hungary, questioning
democratic institutions, and today's Britain, intent on cutting
bonds with the Continent.
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