Árpád Szenes

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Fundação Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva, Lisbon - The foundation and the museum were established in 1994 and show the work of both artists

Árpád Szenes (born May 6, 1897 in Budapest , Hungary , † January 16, 1985 in Paris , France ) was a Hungarian-French painter .

Life

Árpád Szenes started painting very early. In 1918 he attended the "Free Academy" in Budapest , which practiced a progressive, liberal education. There he was introduced to international contemporary art and the music of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály and the work of the constructivist Lajos Kassák . In 1922 he had his first exhibition in the “Musée Ernst” in Budapest.

Scenes traveled to the most important cultural metropolises in Europe in his time and finally settled in Paris in 1925 .

In 1929 he met Maria Helena Vieira da Silva at the “ Académie de la Grande Chaumière ”. The two married a year later in 1930.

In 1931 he began to work with engraving. He came into contact with the artists of surrealism , which greatly influenced his art during this period. He was a member of the Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires AEAR.

After the outbreak of the Second World War, he emigrated to Brazil with Vieira da Silva in 1940 . They lived there until 1947.

Árpád Szenes was one of the most important representatives of the École de Paris in the 1940s.

In the 1950s, gouaches and tempera dominated his work. In his painting he dealt with the effect of light, the creation of atmosphere in the pictures and was inspired by Japanese art.

Scene worked with poets such as René Char and Claude Esteban , whose works he illustrated.

In 1956 he took French citizenship. Árpád Szenes was a participant in documenta II (1959) and documenta III (1964) in Kassel . In the 1960s, his international reputation as an artist was finally consolidated.

Exhibitions

Scenes had numerous exhibitions in France, Portugal and other countries including:

  • 2018: Árpád Szenes - Plénitude aux confins de l'existant , Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris.

Prizes and awards

Scenes has been awarded art prizes by the French state, among other things.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Painted poetry in Paris in FAZ from January 6, 2018, page 15

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personal data
SURNAME Scenes, Árpád
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-French painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1985
Place of death Paris , France