Farkas Molnár

Farkas "Wolfgang" Ferenc Molnár (1897–1945) was a Hungarian architect, painter, essayist, and graphic artist. He is associated with the first generation of Bauhaus movement, and was active in Budapest.

Biography Farkas Molnár was born in 1897 in Pécs, southwestern Hungary.

In 1921, he became a member of Bauhaus University, Weimar and studied under Johannes Itten, and later Walter Gropius. In 1923, he organized the first exhibition of the Bauhaus, at which time he exhibited a plan for a house known as . In 1924, he studied under Georg Muche and Marcel Breuer; and worked on designing the exterior and interior of terraced houses.

He moved back to Hungry in 1925, where he graduated from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, studied under and . He participated in the KUT exhibitions with his paintings and designs, as well as was a founding member of the Hungarian Workshop Association, and took part in the Bauhaus tradition of the Green Donkey Theater's stage workshop. Molnár designed the "U-Theatre", a motorized stage that could glide horizontally.

In 1929, Gropius invited him to the CIAM Congress (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) in Frankfurt.

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