Kalman Brogyanyi

* Felsőkocskóc, June 5, 1905 – † Yonkers [USA], October 9, 1978 / art historian, editor ; ; He studied Hungarian and French literary history and art history at the University of Bratislava. In 1928, he was one of the founders of the Sickle, but later distanced himself from the movement. As secretary of the art department of the Bratislava Kunstverein and the Hungarian Scientific, Literary and Artistic Society of Czechoslovakia (“Masaryk Academy”), he organized numerous fine art exhibitions. He was a collaborator and editor of several journals (e.g. Fórum, 1931–1938), and his articles also appeared in Korunk in Kolozsvár. He primarily published works on art history, art criticism, aesthetics and social theory. In 1939–1942, he was the head of the Hungarian Library in Bratislava. In 1945 he was the editor-in-chief of the short-lived, Arrow Cross-Shield Magyar Szó, for which he was sentenced to prison by the Bratislava People's Court in 1946. In 1947 he escaped and went to Austria, where he worked as a locksmith in Linz. In 1951 he settled in the USA, but he no longer dealt with art history and criticism. ; ; His main works: ; Painting in Slovenia, 1931, ; The Art of Light, 1933, ; Hungarian Library Service 1941.