Bernard cauliflower

Bernard Karfiol (born May 6, 1886 in Budapest , Hungary , † August 16, 1952 in New York ) was an American painter of Hungarian origin.

Life

Cauliflower was the son of Hungarian immigrants and grew up in Brooklyn and Long Island . He went to school in Brooklyn. He began his artistic training at the age of 14 at the National Academy of Design in New York City . At the age of 15 he went to the Académie Julian in Paris , where he became a student of Jean-Paul Laurens . At the age of 17, Karfiol made his debut with a portrait in the 1903 Salon of the Societé des arts francaises , also in Paris.

In 1905 Karfiol went back to New York and worked there from 1908 to 1913 as a lecturer at his former academy.

In 1917 he had already achieved a certain level of notoriety, but it was not until 1923 that he achieved artistic recognition with a large solo exhibition at the J. Brummer Gallery in New York. The focus of this exhibition was portraits and nudes. The following year, Karfiol was able to repeat this success with another exhibition at Brummer. One focus this time was on figures and landscapes.

That same year, the Anderson Galleries in New York hosted the Independence Secession exhibition . Cauliflower took part with an act of girls and received unanimous applause from critics.

In 1927 cauliflower took part with two female nudes in an art competition of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh , which at least received an honorable mention from the jury.

In the last years of his life, cauliflower hardly appeared in public. In 1931 the painter Anne Carleton became his student for some time.

Bernard Karfiol died in September 1952 at the age of 66, probably in New York.

In addition to his files, he also impresses with his landscapes. His most famous works are Fishing Village and Seated Nude , both of which are on display in the Museum of Modern Art . Overall, his pictures are characterized by harmonious colors, simplicity and a certain delicacy.

literature

• Peter Hastings Falk (Ed.): Who was who in American art, 1564-1975. 400 years of artists in America . Madison, CT .: Sound View Press, 1999. ISBN 0-932087-55-8