A titkos cikk: Késő nazarénus, késő romantikus és kártyatervező: A Kupelwieser-tanítvány Unger Alajos újrafelfedézese. In: Arrabona 50 / 2 (2012)
A titkos cikk. A múzeumi oldalon nem található, hivatal pdf nem kaptam meg. Ez ellenére itt az Arrabona 50 / 2 tanulmányom magam pdf formátumban. A győri Unger kártyafestő és művészcsaládról. Unger Károly (1812-1895), pap, püspöki írnok és levéltáros az újvárosi Nepomuki Szent János kápolna kurátóra volt, a kápolna melleti házban élt. Ott 1878-ban testvére Ifj. Unger Mátyás kártyafestő halt meg, és ott Unger Alajos akadémiai festő olajképei egyszer is raktározottnak.
Wunderlich, Claudia: Késő nazarénus, késő romantikus és kártyatervező: A Kupelwieser-tanítvány Unger Alajos újrafelfedézese
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Alajos Alois Unger as a frescoist?
It is a well-known fact that the Nazarenes earned great fame for their frescos in Villa Bartholdy and Casa Massimo in Rome in the 1810s/20s. One of these artists who participated in this work was Joseph von Führich (1800-1876), who became a professor of “historical composition” at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1840. Both he and his colleague Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862), Alajos Alois Unger’s main teacher, reestablished the fresco technique in Austria and taught it to their students. In Unger’s hometown Győr, a fresco from the first half of the 19th century, which looks as though it had been painted in the 1840s, by a hitherto unknown artist can be found in the so-called chapter house. It is owned by the diocese of Győr. On the upper floor of the house, an illusionist land- and townscape fresco can be found, which strongly resembles Unger’s picture clock in terms of style and colours. Further sources and/or technical art historical, investigation into the matter would be necessary and would through new light into the workings and influence of the late Nazarene and late Romanticist school onto Hungarian art in the 19th century as well as into the Kupelwieser-Führich circle’s activities in Hungary:
The main Unger playing-card workshops // Az Unger kártya főműhelyek
The continued research of the past year has yielded new results and it has now been possible to locate the exact places where the two main playing-card workshops of Mátyás Unger the Elder and Younger were located in Győr: one in Apáca utca, formerly #323, now #27, next to the German Hospital and Church. Altogether, though, the old house no longer exists as it was torn down with its two neighbouring houses to the left and right when the German Hospital built a new building adjacent to its original edifice in the latter half of the 19th century. It is now an old folks’ home, according to Dr. Gyula Vadász. This house belonged to the Ungers from the 1810s to the early 1840s, when they had to have it auctioned off and moved to Bástya utca #260, now Duna kapu tér #7. This brown house was newly erected in 1850, and the Ungers therefore took residence in the Apatur ház on Széchenyi tér at around this time, but kept their playing-card workshop there until c 1857, when they ceased their playing-card production in Győr.
Standard 56-card deck (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Despite the fact that the original house in Apáca utca is obsolete now, we have been able to make considerable progress with the reconstruction, ie outside-in analysis of the artisanal playing-card production in 19th century in Győr. To be continued… and photographs will also be added to this post soon.
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