Angol nyelvű The iconography, design and manufacture of the 19thcentury playing-cards by the Unger family from Győr cimű tanulmányt írtam s most megjelent. Itt az absztrakt. Magyar forditás hamarosan is lesz. Egy kis türelemt kérem szépen.
My latest article entitled The iconography, design and manufacture of the 19thcentury playing-cards by the Unger family from Győr has now been published. The abstract can be found here. I shall soon provide a Hungarian translation.
Abstract:
The present article offers new evidence on the Unger playing-card making family of Győr, Western Transdanubia as the result of a cross-disciplinary study. Mátyás Unger the Elder (1789-1862) and his like-named son Mátyás the Younger (1824–1878) produced various types of playing-cards from the early to mid-19th century. In particular, their cards, their iconography, design and production process will beanalysed. The family is best known for their cards with Sopron (Oedenburg) pattern. Also discussed will be the role of Mátyás the Elder’s second eldest son Alajos Unger (1814-1848) as a possible designer of the later Unger cards, which were of considerably higher quality than the earlier known ones by Mátyás Unger the Elder.
The hitherto little-known Alajos Unger was trained as a draughtsman and painter first at the National DrawingmSchool of his hometown and then, between 1833 and 1842, at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, particularly under Leopold Kupelwieser (1796–1862). Finally an innovative outside-in bottom-up method for gaining further, reliable insight into 19thcentury artisanal playing-card manufacturing will be proposed to determine the size, output and profitability of the Unger workshop based on material-flow simulation.
Keywords: 19th century Hungarian playing-cards, Sopron pattern, Mátyás Unger, Alajos Unger, playing-card iconography, artisanal playing-card production, reconstruction of a playing-card workshop, material flow simulation
Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Dr. Erzsébet Györgyi, Antal Jánoska, Peter Endebrock, Dr. phil. Cornelia Friedrich, Dr. Mária Unger, Dr. Gyula Vadász, István Pozsonyi, my family & particularly my husband Jürgen for their help and encouragement. Last but not least thanks to Professor Gábor Barna for the kind interest expressed in my work.
Tovabbi információk / further information:
http://www.akademiai.com/content/ug32757g237r/?p=65d38f20bccc481aac10dc3d5dfc7c9f&pi=0
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