Bertalan Pór

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Tamás Gyenes: Bertalan Pór (1967)
Grave on the Kerepesi temető

Bertalan Pór (born November 4, 1880 in Bábaszék , Austria-Hungary ; died August 29, 1964 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian painter.

Life

Pór came from a Jewish family. He received his first artistic training in Budapest at the Mintarajziskolá (master drawing school ). From 1900 Pór studied with Gabriel von Hackl at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich . He was also a student of Simon Hollósy in the Nagybánya artists ' colony . In 1906 he attended together with Róbert Berény in Paris , the Academie Julian in Jean-Paul Laurens , where he was also a guest at the salon of Gertrude Stein . He was under the artistic impression of Henri Matisse , Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne . Ferdinand Hodler was a special role model for him . With Berény he went on a study trip through Italy.

In 1908, Pór took part in the first exhibition of the Hungarian Society of Impressionists and Naturalists (MIÉNK). Influenced by the Fauvists , Róbert Berény and Lajos Tihanyi , whose drawing teacher he had been, as well as Dezső Czigány , Béla Czóbel , Károly Kernstok , Ödön Márffy and Dezső Orbán founded the artist group Nyolcak ( The Eight ) with his participation . He had his first solo exhibition three months earlier. In 1914, the paintings of the eight were to be shown in the Vienna Künstlerhaus , but Berénys and Tihanyi's radically new works were rejected, so that Pór held a counter-exhibition with the two of them in the Viennese "Art Salon Brüko". For the World Expo 1915 in San Francisco , under the name Panama-Pacific International Exposition ran, although no German and Austrian artists of European art agent John Nilsen Laurvik were invited but could 500 works of Hungarian artists to send in, among them were 72 exhibits of Pór. After the USA entered the war, the images were confiscated as enemy assets and only returned to Hungary, incomplete, in the 1920s. Pór was drafted during the First World War and worked as a war painter .

Pór supported the Republican Asters Revolution in 1918 and the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 , in which, like Berény, he assumed an official position, and created one of the well-known propaganda posters of the Soviet Republic Világ Proletárjai Egyesüljetek! ("Proletarians of all countries, unite!"). He had after their crackdown and the onset of the White Terror in Czechoslovakia to escape and lived in Piestany . He was only able to return to Hungary in 1948. He made trips to France, Italy and the Soviet Union, where he stayed for six months in 1935. Pór also illustrated books by Gyula Illyés and Sándor Gergely .

With the threatened German occupation of Czechoslovakia , he emigrated to Paris in 1938 , where he met Tihany's nephew, the photographer Ervin Marton . As a Jew, he survived the German occupation of France . After the liberation of Paris in 1944, he, Marton and György Bölöni re-established the Institut hongrois de Paris . In 1948 he returned to communist Hungary and was appointed professor at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts . His late work of the last fifteen years was based on socialist realism . The reproduction of a Stalin portrait was included in the East Berlin monthly Aufbau in 1953 for a Stalin obituary by Victor Stern . He received the Kossuth Prize in 1949 and 1951 , the Munkácsy-díj in 1950, the Érdemes művész díj in 1952 and the Kiváló Művésze díj in 1955.

Exhibitions

  • September 12 to December 2, 2012: The Eight - A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity in the Bank Austria Art Forum.

literature

Web links

Commons : Bertalan Pór  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The eight. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity. 2012, p. 192 f. (With a portrait photo of Bertalan Pórs from 1911 by Aladár Székely ).
  2. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Ed.): 02247 Bertalan Por. In: Matriculation Book. Book: 1884–1920. 1920 ( matrikel.adbk.de ).
  3. ↑ The Eight. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity. 2012, p. 137 f.
  4. ↑ The Eight. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity. 2012, p. 139 f.
  5. ↑ The Eight. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity. 2012, p. 140 f.
  6. ↑ The Eight. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity. 2012, p. 141.
  7. ↑ Bertalan Pór , at Museum of Modern Art
  8. ↑ Structure. Cultural-political monthly. Issue 4, 1953, p. 304.
  9. ^ Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien : The eight. Hungary's Highway to Modernity. 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Pór, Bertalan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bertalan Por (Germanized spelling); Pór Bertalan (Hungarian spelling of names)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bábaszék
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1964
Place of death Budapest