Étienne Hajdú
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Étienne Hajdú (actually: István Hajdú ; born August 12, 1907 in Torda , then Transylvania , Austria-Hungary ; † March 24, 1996 in Bagneux near Paris , France ) was a French sculptor and relief artist of Hungarian descent. He was an important exponent of abstract art after the Second World War .
life and work
Étienne Hajdú was born to Hungarian parents in the Transylvanian Torda ( Romanian : Turda ). He attended the Technical School of Decorative Arts in Ujpest, today Budapest, in the wood sculpture department from 1923 to 1925 and in 1926 for three months at the art school in Vienna . In October 1927 he moved to Paris . In the same year he became a student in the life drawing course of Antoine Bourdelle at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière for six months . He then attended Niclausse 's École des arts décoratifs until 1929. He received French citizenship in 1930 and completed his military service in 1931/1932. In 1930 he met Fernand Léger , who will have a lasting impact on his art. He befriends Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szenes , with whom he exhibited together in 1939 at the Jeanne Bucher Gallery in Paris. In 1936 he traveled to the Netherlands to get to know Piet Mondrian's country . In 1939 he traveled to Greece and Crete and gained impressions of the Mycenaean - Cretan art of antiquity.
After serving in the military in 1939 and 1940, he worked in a marble quarry in Bagnères de Bigorre until the liberation of France in 1944 . Between 1950 and 1951, Étienne Hajdú built his own house and studio in Bagneux near Paris, where he lived and worked until his death.
After regular exhibitions in the Jeanne Bucher Gallery in Paris from 1946 to 1958, his art received international recognition. In 1958 he exhibited at the Knœdler Gallery in New York City , then in Germany in 1961 at the Kestner Society in Hanover . Étienne Hajdú exhibited in Krefeld in 1959 together with Alicia Penalba in the Museum Haus Lange and in 1973 with Juana Muller and Baltasar Lobo in the Musées de Metz in Luxembourg . In 1959 he was a participant in documenta 2 and in 1964 also in documenta 3 in Kassel in the plastic department . In 1969 he was awarded the Grand prix de sculpture .
Hajdu's grave is in the Thiais cemetery near Paris.
Works in museums and collections
- Center Pompidou Paris,
- Frac Île-de-France (Le Plateau)
- Frac Bretagne ( Châteaugiron )
- Dijon Museum
- Grenoble Museum
- Folkwang Museum Essen
- Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach
- Museum of Modern Art New York,
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Phillips Collection Washington, DC
- Musée d'état Luxembourg
- Budapest Art Museum
- Bucharest Art Museum
- “Museum of Contemporary Art” Skopje Macedonia
- University of St. Gallen (art in architecture)
literature
- Exhibition catalog: Étienne Hajdú ; Kestner Society Hannover for the exhibition from February 16 to April 3, 1961
- Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
- Exhibition catalog for documenta III (1964) in Kassel: documenta III. International exhibition . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Industrial design, graphics. Kassel / Cologne 1964
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hajdú, Etienne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hajdú, István |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor of Hungarian descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turda , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1996 |
| Place of death | Bagneux near Paris, France |