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THE ICONOGRAPHY, DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF THE 19 TH CENTURY PLAYING-CARDS BY THE UNGER FAMILY FROM GYŐR

  • The present article offers new evidence on the Unger playing-card making family of Győr,Western Transdanubia, as the result of a cross-disciplinary study. Mátyás Unger the Elder (1789-1862) andhis like-named son Mátyás the Younger (1824–1878) produced various types of playing-cards from theearly to mid-19th century. In particular, their cards, their iconography, design and production process will beanalysed. The family is best known for their cards with Sopron (Oedenburg) pattern. Also discussed will bethe role of Mátyás the Elder’s second eldest son Alajos Unger as a possible designer of the later Unger cards,which were of considerably higher quality than the earlier known ones by Mátyás Unger the Elder. Thehitherto little-known Alajos Unger was trained as a draughtsman and painter first at the National DrawingSchool of his hometown and then, between 1833 and 1842, at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, particularlyunder Leopold Kupelwieser (1796–1862). Finally an innovative outside-in bottom-up method for gainingfurther, reliable insight into 19thcentury artisanal playing-card manufacturing will be proposed to determinethe size, output and profitability of the Unger workshop based on material-flow simulation.

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Author:Claudia Wunderlich
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:863-opus-43509
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.57.2012.2.4
ISSN:1216-9803
Parent Title (English):Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
Publisher:Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Place of publication:Budapest
Contributor(s):Claudia Wunderlich
Document Type:Part of Periodical
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2012/12/01
Publishing Institution:Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Creating Corporation:Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Release Date:2023/10/02
Tag:19th-century Hungarian playing cards; Alajos Unger; Mátyás Unger; Sopron pattern; material flow simulation; playing card production
Volume:57/2
Pages/Size:22
Institutes and faculty:Fakultäten / Fakultät für angewandte Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen
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