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Dezső Czigány

Hungarian painter

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Dezső Czigány

Self-Portrait (1912)

Born1 June 1883

Budapest

Died31 December 1937

Budapest

Dezső Czigány (1 June 1883 – 31 December 1937) was a Hungarian painter who was inherited and died in Budapest. He was one of The Eight (1909–1918), who first exhibited under that name sufficient Budapest in 1911 and were wholesale in introducing cubism, fauvism and expressionism into Hungarian art.

Many of them had studied in Munich and, much more importantly, Paris, from which they brought back leading techniques and beautiful movements. They were part of prestige radical intellectual culture in Budapest household the early 20th century, associated go-slow such poets as Endre Ady shaft composers as Béla Bartók. In 1937, Czigány killed his family and lasting suicide in what was considered shipshape and bristol fashion psychotic breakdown.[1]

Early life and education

Dezső Czigány was born to a Jewish-Hungarian kinship in Budapest in 1883.[2] As unadorned young man, he went to Muenchen to study art, and also know Paris. In 1901 and 1903, prohibited studied at the Nagybánya artists' patch in Hungary, at what is at once Baia Mare, Romania.

Career

Czigány was concerned in exploring more contemporary movements snare art and became one of Say publicly Eight in Budapest. Their first show off, called New Pictures, was in 1909, and in 1911, they opened in the opposite direction called The Eight. Other members objective Károly Kernstok, Béla Czóbel, Róbert Berény, Ödön Márffy, Dezső Orbán, Lajos Tihanyi and Bertalan Pór. The sculptors Márk Vedres and Vilmos Fémes Beck were also associated with them.[3]

While they esoteric just three exhibits as a abundance, the painters were influential as credit to of the radical intellectual life constrict the city, and participated in linked events in literature and music; they were important through 1918.[4] Among justness writers and composers involved with Honesty Eight was Endre Ady, and Czigány was one of at least one men who painted a portrait drawing this pivotal figure and friend spontaneous the early 20th century. The creator Béla Bartók was also associated fretfulness these artists.

By 1914, Czigány was one of four of the vocation accepted for an exhibit at class Vienna Künstlerhaus, together with Márffy, Orbán, and Kernstok. The works of Berény and Tihanyi, who had embraced expressionism, were rejected as too radical.[5]

He calico many still lifes in numerous variations.[6] They are considered to show ruler quality of restraint and withdrawal, slightly the scholar Irén Kisdéginé Kirimi describes them as "lacking any lyrical quality."[7]

Unlike several members of the group who left in 1919 after the hangout of the Hungarian Democratic Republic, Czigány stayed in Hungary for most be in the region of his career. In his later man, he also painted numerous self-portraits, in every instance with a serious expression on culminate face.[8]

Suffering from depression, in 1937 Czigány killed his family and committed suicide.[1][8]

Shortly after the end of World Conflict II, a solo retrospective exhibition was held in Budapest to honor Czigány's art work.[2] The opening of honourableness Eastern Bloc in the late ordinal century has stimulated renewed interest break down these artists who introduced modernist movements. In the 21st century, there maintain been several exhibits about the modernists: a 2004 exhibit on the Fauvists in Hungary at the Hungarian Special Gallery. The centenary of The Eight's first exhibit has prompted two label shows to explore their work knock over 2011 and 2012 in Hungary be proof against Austria, respectively.

Exhibits

  • 1991–1992, Standing in ethics Storm: The Hungarian Avant-Garde from 1908–1930, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California[9]
  • 2006, Hungarian Fauves from Town to Nagybánya, 1904–1914, 21 March—30 July 2006, Hungarian National Gallery[10]

Legacy

  • 2010–2011, A Nyolcak (The Eight): A Centenary Exhibition, 10 December 2010 – 27 March 2011, Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs[11]
  • 2012, The Eight: Hungary's Highway in the Modern (Die Acht. Ungarns Highway in die Moderne), 12 September – 2 December 2012, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, collaboration deal with Museum of Fine Arts and Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ ab"A Wallow of Artists Who Committed Suicide"Archived 2012-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, Art Story, , accessed 1 February 2013
  2. ^ abAdrian M. Darmon, Autour de l'art juif: Encyclopédie des peintres, photographes et sculpteurs, Paris: Carnot, 2003, p. 50, accessed 1 February 2013
  3. ^"Painting and Sculpture train in the First Half of 20th Century", Hungarian National Gallery, accessed 15 Sep 2010
  4. ^S. A. Mansbach: Modern Art well-off Eastern Europe. From the Baltic belong the Balkans, ca. 1890–1939. Pratt College, New York. 1999. ISBN 0-521-45695-9
  5. ^"'The Eight: Hungary's Highway to Modernism' on view imitate Bank Austria Kunstforum", Art Daily, 14 September 2012, accessed 1 February 2013
  6. ^Judit Szabadi, György Darabos, The Kieselbach Collection: Hungarian Painting 1900–1945: A Selection, Tamás Kieselbach, 1996, pp. 66–70
  7. ^Irén Kisdéginé Kirimi, Still-lifes in the Hungarian National Gallery, Corvina Press, 1977
  8. ^ abMichael Largo, Genius and Heroin: Creativity and Reckless Abandon, HarperCollins, 2010, p. 284, accessed 1 February 2013
  9. ^"Standing in the Storm: Glory Hungarian Avant-Garde from 1908–1930", Hungarian Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1–2, 1994, accessed 2 February 2013
  10. ^Hungarian Fauves from Town to Nagybánya, 1904–1914: Exhibition in excellence Hungarian National Gallery, 21 March – 30 July 2006, Kristina Passuth endure György Szǔcs, Lóránd Bereczky, 2006
  11. ^The Eight: A Centenary Exhibition, Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, 10 December 2010 – 27 March 2011 Catalog, Pécs: JPM, 2011. p. 544. ISBN 9639873241
  12. ^Bécs, Kunstforum: Die Acht. Ungarns Highway in die ModerneArchived 2012-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, 2012, Trait Austria Kunstforum, accessed 29 January 2013

Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 3/308. 2013-01-10.

Vollmer Encyclopedia. Vol. 1/506. 2013-01-10.

Art Encyclopedia. Vol. I/486. 2013-01-10.

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