Stefan Sebök

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An unknown Hungarian engineer who floated between Dessau, Vienna, and Budapest. In 1926, after graduation in Vienna, Sebok did not come to Germany to undertake formal studies, but rather to familiarize himself with modern architecture. In Gropius' firm he took part in planning projects and competitions, as he were Farkas Molnár's successor. Through his collaboration with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, he became an 'external' member of the Bauhaus. From 1928 onward, in Berlin, he was a film and set designer with Moholy-Nagy and helped Gropius to organise his studio. By designing three mechanical units for the Light Requisite and coordinating the movements performed on a rotating disc, he contributed to the realization of a utopian stage machine.

Like his predecessor Molnár, Sebok was an architect with good design skills, who mainly took part in competitions for theater architecture (Dance Theater of Dresden, 1926-1928, Gyor, 1929, Harkov, 1930). His designs were based on dividing a building's volume and coloring its various levels using a combination of primary colors. They were of a character with theaters by Hungarian Bauhaus members (such as Forbat's block theater, which was comprised of a single hall and conceived specifically for Hirschfeld-Mack's spotlight effects). Sebok's designs also reflected Andor Weininger's utopia and continued with Gropius' and Moholy-Nagy's notion of the total theater, culminating in an excessive, spherical building (1926).

See also: Hungary#Avant-garde