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There is a characteristic two-stage pattern of exile in the case of Hungarians who fled their native country after the fall of the 1918–1919 revolutions, settled in Germany and then found diemselves forced to flee again by Hitler’s rise to power. I want to focus on the career of an artist, László Moholy-Nagy, and compare some of its turning-points with those in the life of a sociologist, Károly Mannheim. This comparison is intended to highlight the importance of international professional networks for migrants within the art world or academia, which account for some specific features that set apart the careers of scientists, scholars, and artists in exile from those of other emigrants.
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Kenneth McRobbie, “Ilona Duczynska: Sovereign Revolutionary,” in K. McRobbie and Kari Polanyi- Levitt (eds.), Karl Polanyi in Vienna. The Contemporary Significance of the Great Transformation (Montréal, New York, London: Black Rose Books, 2000), 255–264.
Karl Mannheim, “The Problem of Generations,” in Essays on the Sociology of Culture (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956), 304.
See the excellent monograph by Éva Forgács, The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics (Budapest, London, New York: Central European University Press, 1991).
Norbert Elias, “Notizen zum Lebenslauf,” in Peter Gleichmann et al. (eds.), Macht und Zivilisation. Materialien zu Norbert Elias’ Zivilisationstheorie 2 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1984), 9–82.
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Wessely, A. (2005). An Exile’s Career From Budapest Through Weimar to Chicago: László Moholy-Nagy. In: Kettler, D., Lauer, G. (eds) Exile, Science and Bildung. Studies in European Culture and History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04596-6_6
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