Word: hungarian
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Arriving in Paris in 1924, Hungarian-born Gyula Halász was anything but a photographer. A painter and occasional journalist, he even confessed to despising the art form. But he was a night owl, attracted to a city couched in the [an error occurred while processing this directive] glow of street lamps and dense mist. Nocturnal Paris was, to him, a "world of pleasure, of love, vice, crime, drugs ? Paris at its most alive." And best illuminating it called for a camera. The work of Brassaï, as Halász became in 1932 (meaning "from Brass...
...mystery deepens because Israel is not unique. Its creation is rooted in the decay of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and Russian empires at the end of the 19th century and in the desire of persecuted peoples for homelands. The Jews of Eastern Europe were not the only ones who dreamed such dreams; so did Serbs, Czechs, Poles, Croats and others. As the empires were carved up at the end of two world wars, new nations took shape. The state of Israel, to be sure, was created on someone else's land (whose is a matter of debate...
Suni Magyar never planned on owning a crafts shop. Busy with her reflexology business in Uganda's capital of Kampala, the Kenyan-born, British-educated Hungarian-Scot set up Banana Boat, her first tiny 2-sq-m shop, on a whim. "There were lots of expats living in the city with big houses, lots of wall space and nothing to put on them," explains Magyar. "Initially, I thought it would be quite fun to sell modern art prints." She was quickly inundated by customers looking for other home products and, since 2000, has combined her love of traditional local craftsmanship...
Suni Magyar never planned on owning a crafts shop. Busy with her reflexology business in Uganda's capital of Kampala, the Kenyan-born, British-educated Hungarian-Scot set up Banana Boat, her first tiny 2-sq-m shop, on a whim. "There were lots of expats living in the city with big houses, lots of wall space and nothing to put on them," explains Magyar.[an error occurred while processing this directive] "Initially, I thought it would be quite fun to sell modern art prints." She was quickly inundated by customers looking for other home products and, since...
...Born in Budapest to a Hungarian mother partly of Jewish extraction, and a Sikh father, Sher-Gil studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she absorbed influences from Gaugin to contemporary Hungarian art. At age 21, she settled in India, which had seen nothing like her. Most men who met her became infatuated; her numerous lovers included British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, and perhaps even Jawaharlal Nehru, India's future prime minister. Rumors grew furiously but Sher-Gil doesn't seem to have cared; her self-portraits, which, like her nude studies of women, are icons of Indian...