GEORGE MAYER-MARTON
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“During the night of 11/12 September 1940 a German incendiary bomb set the studio at 9 Elm Tree Road on fire.  Cessation of work, nowhere to live. This workbook has been put together on the basis of the half-burnt original and is incomplete” G Mayer-Marton Reconstructed Workbook

"some of the most elegant and incisive graphics in existence” Max Wykes-Joyce, Arts Review 1974
 
“a highly civilized man, and an artist of consistent accomplishment, whom our wretched century subjected to a generation of misfortunes, and who yet subdued them all”  Hugh Scrutton, Director of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
 
“one of the outstanding artists of Austro­-Hungarian origin from the twenties, thirties on into the fifties ” Regine Schmidt, curator Belvedere Gallery, Vienna 1986

"His dedication and humanity are already legendary: this showing is no more than a civilised gesture towards a man who truly understood the meaning of civilisation." Anthony Tucker, art critic, Manchester Guardian 1961 

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Fresco and Mosaic Mural at the Church of the Holy Rosary, Oldham
​currently under threat

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