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Francis Haar was a Hungarian socio-photographer, later became renowned graphic artist and book designer.

Background

Francis Haar was born in 1908 in Czematfalu, Hungary.

Education

He received a Master of Photography degree from the National Academy of Industrial Arts in Budapest, Hungary.

Career

A lecturer in photography at the Art Department of the University of Hawaii (1964-75), he was previously owner of Haar Photo, an art and motion picture production studio in Tokyo (1940-56). He also owned Haar Studio in Paris (1937-39) and Budapest, Hungary (1934-37).

He has made several films, including Holaulea, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1961), Ukiyoe, Japanese Print, for the Art Institute of Chicago (1959), and The Arts of Japan, for the U.S. Information Agency in Tokyo (1953).

Achievements

  • PUBLICATIONS Books: The Artists of Hawaii, vols. 1 &. 2, w/Neogy & Turnbull; Legends of Hawaii, w/Paki, 1974; Japanese Theatre in Highlights, 1952, Best of Old Japan, 1950 (Charles Tuttle Co.: Tokyo); Hungarian Picture Book, 1941 (Benrido Publishing Co.: Kyoto, Japan); Around Mount Fuji, 1940.

Membership

Haar is a member of both Honolulu Printmakers and Artists of Hawaii.

Connections

Wife:
Irene Haar

Son:
Tom Haar

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Career

Awards

  • Golden Eagle awards

    A recipient of Golden Eagle awards from Washington, D.C., for films (1963, 1966).

  • First prize

    He won first prize at both the Metropolitan Improvement Photo Contest in Chicago (1959) and the Hungarian National Photo Contest in 1933 and 1935.