Béla Czóbel

Portrait of Béla Czóbel by Imre Varga (1976)

Béla Czóbel (born September 4, 1883 in Budapest , † January 29, 1976 ibid) was a Hungarian expressionist and Fauvist artist of Jewish descent.

Live and act

Béla Czóbel was the older brother of Ernő Czóbel . In 1902 he spent the summer with the Impressionists in Nagybanya . Czóbel studied in 1902 and 1903 with Ludwig von Herterich and Julius Diez at the Munich Academy . He then switched to Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris . In Paris he met Pablo Picasso and André Dunoyer de Segonzac . In 1905, Czóbel first exhibited pictures that were shown in the Fauves' room in the Salon d'Automne . Although he was formally a member of the Fauvists, he was more oriented towards Paul Cézanne . Czóbel was a member of the artists' associations MIÉNK and Nyolcak and stayed in Paris until 1914. He spent the First World War in the Netherlands, after which he worked in Berlin until 1925. In 1925 he moved to Paris for good, but kept in constant contact with Hungarian artists, spending most of the summer in Szentendre . In 1933 Czóbel received the Szinyei Prize, in 1948 the Kossuth Prize .

After his Fauvist period, Czóbel tried to find a way between the French Fauvists, the German Expressionists and the Nagybanya School. A common feature of most of his pictures is the strong expressionism-oriented coloring that contrasts with the rather strict lines.

A Czóbel Museum has been located in Szentendre since 1975.

Béla Czóbel married the painter and textile designer Isolde Daig in 1905 . In April 1906 their daughter Lisa was born in Bamberg , who later became one of the most important expressive dancers of the 20th century. In the summer months of 1924–1928, Béla, Isolde and Lisa Czóbel were regular guests at Gertraud Rostosky's artists' colony Neue Welt . The Czóbel couple separated in 1934; in August 1939 the two were divorced.
In 1940 Béla Czóbel married the Hungarian artist Mária Modok (1896–1971), whose works are also exhibited in the Czóbel Museum in Szentendre.

literature

• René Edouard-Joseph: Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporaines 1910-1930 . Volume 1, Art & édition, Paris 1930.
• Lexicon of Art. in twelve volumes, here volume 3, page 329. Karl Müller Verlag Erlangen 1994 ISBN 3-86070-452-4

Web links

• Czóbel Múzeum (Hungarian)
• Czóbel Museum (English)
• The pictures by Béla Czóbel
• Czóbel on artportal
• Fine Arts in Hungary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annette Gautherie-Kampka: Café du Dôme: German painter in Paris, 1903-1914 . Donat, 1996. , p. 36
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article by Lorraine Weidemann: Béla Czóbel (pp. 14–15) 
3. ↑ http://canvassed.com/artists/details/maria-modok  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://www.outdooractive.com/de/kunst/ungarn/szentendre/10134789/ The works of Béla Czóbel and Mária Modok in Szentendre