Béni Ferenczy

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Károly Ferenczy: Portrait of Béni Ferenczy (1912)
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Benjamin Ferenczy (born June 18, 1890 in Szentendre , Austria-Hungary ; died June 2, 1967 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian sculptor , medalist , plaque artist and draftsman.

Life

Béni Ferenczy was the second son of the painter Károly Ferenczy and the painter Olga Fialka , younger brother of the painter Valér Ferenczy and the twin brother of the sculptor Noémi Ferenczy . He grew up with his parents in the Nagybánya artists ' colony , where he was trained in painting by István Réti and Béla Iványi-Grünwald . In 1908 he visited the sculptors Friedrich Beer and Giuseppe Cassioli in Florence and in 1910 studied in Munich at the Royal Art Academy with Balthasar Schmitt . In 1912/13 he was in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Antoine Bourdelle and came under the influence of Cubism with Alexander Archipenko .

His artistic work was permeated by many influences, starting with Art Nouveau , Cubism and Expressionism . He turned to neo-classicism in the late 1920s . He also devoted himself to the relief , the plaque and the medal.

Before 1914, Ferenczy was involved in the Budapest Sunday Circle and, along with the sculptor Ferenc Medgyessy and the painter Bertalan Pór, was one of the leading visual artists of the Hungarian Soviet Republic , in which he sat with Róbert Berény on the board of directors for universities and museums. After the suppression of the Soviet republic, he fled to Vienna in 1920 . In 1922 he moved with his Austrian wife for a short time to Potsdam , where his daughter was born. He then went to Berlin and in 1923 back to Vienna, where his son was born. In 1924 it was exhibited in Herwarth Walden's Sturm-Galerie in Berlin , but could not sell anything. In Vienna he was integrated in the Hagenbund and befriended the art historians Hans Sedlmayr and János Wilde . Between 1932 and 1935 he stayed in Moscow , married for the second time, but was driven back to Vienna by the xenophobic campaigns that began there . He was only able to return to Hungary in 1938.

After the end of World War II, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest between 1945 and 1950 .

In communist Hungary he received the Kossuth Prize in 1948 and 1965 , the Érdemes Művésze Prize in 1956 and the Kiváló Művész Prize in 1958. In 1956 he received the title of Honored Artist of the Hungarian People's Republic.

In 1951, the Károly Ferenczy Museum was established in Szentendre , which shows works by Béni Ferenczy and his two siblings as well as works by his father and mother, as well as preserving the bequests. In 1977 a two-year prize, the Ferenczy Béni-díj, was founded.

Writings / exhibitions (selection)

  • István Genthon: Ferenczy Béni . Magvetö Könyvkiadó, Budapest 1961.
  • Gyula Illyés: Ferenczy Béni . Magyar Helikon, Budapest 1967.
  • István Genthon: The Ferenczy Family. Exhibition in Buda Castle . Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest 1968.

literature

  • I. Nagy: Ferenczy, Béni . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 38, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22778-7 , p. 241 f.
  • Ferenczy, Béni . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 91 .
  • Maria Illyés: Béni Ferenczy . In: Hubertus Gaßner : Interactions. Hungarian avant-garde in the Weimar Republic ; [Neue Galerie, Kassel, November 9, 1986 - January 1, 1987; Museum Bochum, January 10, 1987 - February 15, 1987]. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 1986, pp. 147–155.
  • Júlia Jankovich, János Lengyel: Ferenczy Noémi . Corvina Kiadó, Budapest 1983.
  • Fritz Grossmann : Benjamin Ferenczy . In: Forum. Magazine for art, construction and furnishings. 7th year, 1937, pp. 190–191.

Web links

Commons : Béni Ferenczy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Maria Illyés: Béni Ferenczy , 1986.
  2. ↑ a b c I. Nagy: Ferenczy, Béni . In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , 2003, pp. 241–242.
  3. ^ Hans Sedlmayr : Contribution to a commemorative publication for the 90th birthday of Béni Ferenczy . Excerpt from Maria Illyés: Béni Ferenczy , pp. 151–155.
  4. ↑ Ferenczy Noémi-díj , at Artportal (hu)
personal data
SURNAME Ferenczy, Béni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferenczy, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian sculptor, medalist, plaque artist and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Szentendre , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 2nd, 1967
Place of death Budapest