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| Creator: | Moor, Peter | |
| Dates: | 1930-1980 | |
| Abstract: | Collection consists of personal correspondence, family photographs, exhibit programmes, artwork photographs, and manuscripts and typescripts of Peter Moor's poems, novels and drama. These comprise the majority of the collection. | |
| Quantity: | 4.5 lin.ft. | |
| Language: | In Hungarian and English. | |
| Collection ID: | IHRC1623 | |
Collection acquired in August 2003 from Prof. Eleanor Antin of San Diego, California.
Peter Moor (actual name Joszef Barna) was born in Kecskemet, Hungary in 1896, the son of a craftsman and mural painter. In his own words "for the first seventeen years of his life pursued education in painting and poetry". Later entered the Architectural Institute in Budapest where he established contacts with the "Nyugat" (West) literary magazine. In 1920, Moor decided to emigrate to Vienna and later to the United States (having found the Horty dictatorship in Hungary "intolerable".) After his arrival in the US he returned to drawing and painting to support himself as a commercial artist in addition to writing for Hungarian American newspapers and publishing books for the Hungarian community, living in New York. Continued his painting in private as well. Gained recognition after his exhibit at the Bodley Gallery in New York in 1959. In the late 1970's Moor moved to southern California. (biographical information abstracted from "Artist's Statement About the Artist's Life" a typescript by Peter Moor, Box 1)
The Moor, Peter (1896- collection is available for public research.
The Moor, Peter (1896- collection is the physical property of the Immigration History Reseach Center, University of Minnesota.
For further information regrading the copyright, please contact the IHRC.
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The Moor, Peter (1896- Papers, Hungarian American Collection, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
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