An important poster designer and architect in Hungary and in Israel. Irsai’s original style makes him one of the greatest masters of modernist-constructivist poster art. He was born to a not religious Jewish family, his father turned his name to Irsai after the Hungarian town Albertirsa. István Irsai finished highshool at a conservatory as a violin player. Beginning his career as an architect and furniture designer, he also worked in the field of graphic design. In the early 1920's he was working at the Globus Printing House, where he learned everything about printing techniques, inclueded large scale lithography (which was very usefull for his later work). In 1925 Irsai emigrated to Palestine, where he became involved with graphic works. Hailed as a leading graphic artist in Israel, he developed the first modern Hebrew font, the “Haim.” He was seriously interested at typography and he also wrote a book about the new font. Besides this he made signets, emblems and other graphic works for instutions in Erec-Israel. He was fond of theatre art too, with great actors and directors he joined the foundation of the first Jewish theatres in Palestine, one of them was the famous HaKumkum. Irsai worked as designer of the thearte's mobile stages. He also designed Bauhaus styled houses in Tel-Aviv, but sadly non of them exists today. In 1930 Irsai returned to Hungary and established an impressive career as poster and graphic artist. He immediately had a huge impact, designing numerous outstanding posters in the early 1930’s. After most artists have abandoned the modernist style by the second half of the decade, Irsai continued to work in this style and he was highly parised by his contemporaries, including Bortnyik. He designed several clear constructive poster designs for commercial products...http://budapestposter.com/artists/irsai-istvan#sthash.iTaJiIN2.dpuf