Biography
Between 1915 and 1917, Farkas Molnár was a student of Ede Balló and Dezső Pécsi-Pilch at the College of Fine Arts, and then transferred to the Faculty of Architecture of the Budapest University of Technology. In 1920, due to his political views, he had to stop his university studies and return to his hometown in Pécs. Here he took part in the formation of the Pécs Artists' Circle and the group of "expressives". In the spring of 1921, he visited Italy with Johan Hugo and Henrik Stefan. Inspired by the trip, in 1922 with Henrik Stefan, he created a lithography series called Italia at the Bauhaus graphic workshop.
From 1921 to 1925 he was a student of Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus in Weimar and attended courses by Johannes Itten, Kandinsky and Theo van Doesburg. From 1924 he worked alongside Georg Muche and Marcel Breuer. In 1922 his abstract compositions were published at the Viennese Ma. His book Die Bühne im Bauhaus, written jointly with Oskar Schlemmer and László Moholy-Nagy, was published in 1925. He returned to Hungary in the same year, graduated in architecture and gave up his work as a painter and graphic artist. He was a member of CIAM and the founder of the Hungarian CIRPAC group.
