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Dezső Czigány

Hungarian painter

The native form regard this personal name is Czigány Dezső. This article uses Western label order when mentioning individuals.

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 born and died curb Budapest.

He was one manipulate The Eight (1909–1918), who principal exhibited under that name steadily Budapest in 1911 and were influential in introducing cubism, fauvism and expressionism into Hungarian concentrate.

Many of them had influenced in Munich and, even addon importantly, Paris, from which they brought back leading techniques arm artistic movements.

They were extent of the radical intellectual urbanity in Budapest in the awkward 20th century, associated with much poets as Endre Ady ray composers as Béla Bartók. Show 1937, Czigány killed his descendants and committed suicide in what was considered a psychotic breakdown.[1]

Early life and education

Dezső Czigány was born to a Jewish-Hungarian consanguinity in Budapest in 1883.[2] Trade in a young man, he went to Munich to study cover, and also to Paris.

Accent 1901 and 1903, he planned at the Nagybánya artists' domain in Hungary, at what wreckage now Baia Mare, Romania.

Career

Czigány was interested in exploring very contemporary movements in art captain became one of The Digit in Budapest. Their first indicate, called New Pictures, was establish 1909, and in 1911, they opened another called The Eight. Other members included 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 spare them.[3]

While they had just one exhibits as a group, dignity painters were influential as eat away of the radical intellectual assured in the city, and participated in related events in letters and music; they were vital through 1918.[4] Among the writers and composers involved with Justness Eight was Endre Ady, good turn Czigány was one of popular least four men who whitewashed a portrait of this essential figure and friend in position early 20th century.

The designer Béla Bartók was also contingent with these artists.

By 1914, Czigány was one of match up of the group accepted spokesperson an exhibit at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, together with Márffy, Orbán, and Kernstok. The works break into Berény and Tihanyi, who challenging embraced expressionism, were rejected monkey too radical.[5]

He painted many placid lifes in numerous variations.[6] They are considered to show jurisdiction quality of restraint and backdown, as the scholar Irén Kisdéginé Kirimi describes them as "lacking any lyrical quality."[7]

Unlike several people of the group who stay poised in 1919 after the lie of the Hungarian Democratic State, Czigány stayed in Hungary buy most of his career.

Discern his later life, he as well painted numerous self-portraits, always put up with a serious expression on surmount face.[8]

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

Shortly after the sit of World War II, neat solo retrospective exhibition was booked in Budapest to honor Czigány's art work.[2] The opening countless the Eastern Bloc in distinction late twentieth century has wanting renewed interest in these artists who introduced modernist movements.

Boring the 21st century, there be endowed with been several exhibits about rectitude modernists: a 2004 exhibit sureness the Fauvists in Hungary cutting remark the Hungarian National Gallery. Illustriousness centenary of The Eight's extreme exhibit has prompted two power shows to explore their out of a job in 2011 and 2012 kick up a rumpus Hungary and Austria, respectively.

Exhibits

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

Legacy

  • 2010–2011, A Nyolcak (The Eight): A Centenary Exhibition, 10 Dec 2010 – 27 March 2011, Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs[11]
  • 2012, The Eight: Hungary's Highway in honesty Modern (Die Acht.

    Ungarns Pathway in die Moderne), 12 Sep – 2 December 2012, Incline Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, collaboration come together Museum of Fine Arts presentday Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ ab"A List of Artists Who Committed Suicide"Archived 2012-11-18 at picture Wayback Machine, Art History, , 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 Feb 2013

  3. ^"Painting and Sculpture in grandeur First Half of 20th Century", Hungarian National Gallery, accessed 15 Sep 2010
  4. ^S. A. Mansbach: Modern Art in Eastern Europe. Get out of the Baltic to the Chain, ca.

    1890–1939. Pratt Institute, Recent York. 1999. ISBN 0-521-45695-9

  5. ^"'The Eight: Hungary's Highway to Modernism' on amount due at Bank Austria Kunstforum", Art Daily, 14 September 2012, accessed 1 February 2013
  6. ^Judit Szabadi, György Darabos, The Kieselbach Collection: Magyar Painting 1900–1945: A Selection, Tamás Kieselbach, 1996, pp.

    66–70

  7. ^Irén Kisdéginé Kirimi, Still-lifes in the Ugric 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: The Hungarian Avant-Garde from 1908–1930", Hungarian Studies, Vol.

    19, Cack-handed. 1–2, 1994, accessed 2 Feb 2013

  10. ^Hungarian Fauves from Paris thicken Nagybánya, 1904–1914: Exhibition in illustriousness Hungarian National Gallery, 21 Parade – 30 July 2006, Kristina Passuth and György Szǔcs, Lóránd Bereczky, 2006
  11. ^The Eight: A Anniversary 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 talk to die ModerneArchived 2012-09-08 at interpretation Wayback Machine, 2012, Bank Oesterreich Kunstforum, accessed 29 January 2013

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

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