Georg Mayer-Marton

(1897-1960)

Georg Mayer-Marton was born in Raab / Györ between Budapest and Vienna in 1897. So he was of Hungarian – Jewish descent and a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In 1919 he was admitted to the Academy in Vienna, where he received profound and varied training in the practice and theory of art under the professors Josef Jungwirth, Franz Cizek and Max Dworak. In 1921 he moved to the academy in Munich for two years. His teacher was Max Doerner, a technically accomplished and knowledgeable painter. In Munich he also met his wife, Grete Fried. In 1923 the couple moved back to Vienna. In 1925 Mayer-Marton became a member of the most progressive artists‘ association in the country, the Hagenbund. When the Nazi dictatorship began in 1938, Georg Mayer-Marton had to leave his home and flee to London. Two years after his escape to London, Germans destroyed that warehouse, in which 800 oil paintings and watercolors went up in flames, only a large number of works on paper could be saved. His 20 years of life’s work in oil was destroyed. After another 20 years, Georg Mayer-Martón had created a new, extensive oeuvre in which the influences of his youth were combined in a creative way with those of his second home and the advancing modernity in an impressive and independent way. In the years 1938-1948 mainly Aqarelle was created because he could not afford oil and canvas. Only after 1946 did he paint in oil again. How much he kept up to date technically, however, he proved in the realization of large frescoes and mosaics in schools and churches in the vicinity of Liverpool. He remembered the mosaics in Ravenna, which he was able to examine carefully as a student, and created one last unusual testimony to the greatness of European art. Georg Mayer-Martón died of leukemia on August 8, 1960.

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