Dávid Mária Kiss

Portrait of Dávid Mária Kiss

Dávid Mária Kiss , (real name: Mária Jászai ; * February 4, 1930 in Stuhlweissenburg , † May 20, 2002 in Münster ) was a Hungarian visual artist and graphic designer .

Life

Dávid Mária Kiss was born in Stuhlweissenburg (today: Székesfehérvár) as Mária Kiss. There she trained as a teacher and worked a. a. as librarian (1946/1956). The first eye-catching pencil drawings were made in Stuhlweissenburg and Budapest between 1948 and 1950. In 1956, the year of the Hungarian People's Uprising , she fled to the West. She studied from 1956 to 1963 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a master class student of Charles Crodel . From 1959 to 1965 she was regularly involved in the annual "Great Art Exhibition" in the Haus der Kunst in Munich. In 1959 she married Géza Jászai. The artist consciously adopted her name Dávid Mária Kiss by changing her own female name with the first name of her son and her maiden name (Kiss) in the early 1970s. The arduous struggle for artistic recognition had prompted her to do so, and with the male stage name, doors that were previously closed really opened, attention and success set in. In 1969 she followed her husband to Freiburg im Breisgau and in 1971 to Cologne. In 1973 the couple moved to Münster . Dávid Mária Kiss lived and worked there for almost thirty years; she died on May 20, 2002 in Münster.

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Atelier Dávid Mária Kiss in May 2002

Dávid Mária Kiss initially devoted himself to painting and, in the graphic arts, to drawing , lithography and etching . But soon the woodcut determined her artistic work. In the late 1950s, Dávid Mária Kiss was particularly impressed by the work of the artist group Brücke . Her teacher at the Munich Academy Charles Crodel, a Matisse student, imparted the decorative power of Henri Matisse to her . She especially valued the artists of figurative painting - Vincent van Gogh , Max Beckmann , Oskar Kokoschka and Pablo Picasso . The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München acquired its large, multicolored woodcut “Circle” in 1962. In 1963 she created her first triptych, “Gegensätze”, which was exhibited in the Haus der Kunst in Munich; likewise the triptych “Dream of the Restless”, 1964. In 1965 the triptych “Auschwitz” was completed.

In all areas of graphics, Dávid Mária Kiss has created works with a calm poetic sound. a. Landscapes, still lifes and animal motifs. The image of the human being is the central core of her artistic work. Portraits and self-portraits play an important role. The special power of artistic expression is based on a successful reduction and concentration of the representations. Every pictorial form is a symbolic carrier of expression, the wood grain is masterfully incorporated into the woodcuts as an expression level.

Self-portrait with broken wings , woodcut by Dávid Mária Kiss, friction print, painted, collaged, around 2000, estate of Dávid Mária Kiss

In 1989 the “ Way of the Cross ” was created, which depicts the fourteen stations of suffering on the last path of Jesus in fourteen black and white woodcuts in large scenes. In it, the artist visualizes the suffering of people today, the experience of injustice and devotion. The artist is concerned with the social problems of the present and can be found in her work. The image of the woman, the female figure, is what the viewer encounters most often in the work of Dávid Mária Kiss. In choosing a woman as the main motif, the artist deliberately dealt with all questions and problems of women, as well as the artist herself. The “Self-Portrait with Broken Wings” from the last years of life takes up the self-portrait of the artist from early years. In 2002 Dávid Mária Kiss's studio comprised over 1200 graphic works, plus over 2300 drawings in 27 sketchbooks.

Printing technology

The large-format woodcut became her field of work, she was a master of the black and white woodcut. Later the color came back into her woodblock prints. Dávid Mária Kiss worked in a time-consuming manual printing process, the friction print . Only very few prints were made from the printing block, and each sheet is unique. In later years the artist expanded this direct graphic printing process to include collage-like elements in her prints. She also printed her large-format linocuts in multi-colored hand prints.

Solo exhibitions

• 2013 "Dávid Mária Kiss - Images of Women",
• Since 2011 exhibition of the “Kreuzweg” in the St. Elisabeth Church in Salzburg
• 2010 Galerie Frye & Sohn, Münster
• 2005 Galerie Frye & Sohn, Münster
• 2000 Sentmaring Art Association, Münster
• 1998 Galerie Wienhausen, Münster
• 1993 "Way of the Cross", in the cloister of Münster Cathedral
• 1992 Episcopal Seminary, Münster
• 1991 Gallery of the Stadtsparkasse Münster
• 1981 Liesborn Abbey Museum
• 1980 Elefanten Press Galerie, Münster
• 1979 "Collagen", studio gallery of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History Münster
• 1971 Galerie Daberkow, Frankfurt a. Main
• 1966 Gordon's Fifth Avenue Gallery, New York; and Goldfarb Library, Boston

Works in museums

The Münster City Museum has received 70 sheets from the estate of Dávid Mária Kiss . Works by the artist are in public collections and a. in the State Graphic Collection in Munich , in the City of Frankfurt am Main, in the Jewish Museum Berlin , in the City Museum Nienburg / Weser, in the Christian Museum Gran / Esztergom .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Géza Jászai: Dávid Mária Kiss. Works on the image of man in the 20th century . Raredisc, Vaduz 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503591-0-7
2. ^ City of Münster - Exhibition information May 3, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2013
3. ^ Blogspot "Dávid Mária Kiss" accessed on November 4, 2013
4. ↑ Stadtmuseum Münster - exhibition information September 8, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2013
5. ↑ Vera Krause, Ancilla Röttger: KreuzWeg. With pictures by Dávid Mária Kiss . Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-460-33177-8 , p. 5
6. ^ Géza Jászai: Dávid Mária Kiss. Works on the image of man in the 20th century . Raredisc, Vaduz 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503591-0-7
7. ↑ Stadtmuseum TV: Géza Jászai in the video on Youtube , explains the printing process at the opening of the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum Münster, August 5, 2013
8. ↑ Stadtmuseum Münster - exhibition information

literature

• Géza Jászai: Dávid Mária Kiss. Works on the image of man in the 20th century . Raredisc, Vaduz 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503591-0-7
• Gerhard H. Kock: woodcuts like painting. City Museum shows “pictures of women” by the Munster artist Dávid Mária Kiss . In: Westfälische Nachrichten , Aschendorff, Münster, May 3, 2013 [1]
• Vera Krause, Ancilla Röttger: KreuzWeg. With pictures by Dávid Mária Kiss . Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-460-33177-8 (first published as: Bischöfliches Hilfswerk Misereor (ed.): Way of the Cross by Dávid Mária Kiss . Aachen 2006)
• Dávid Mária Kiss. Woodcuts . Exhibition in the Episcopal Seminary in Münster. Text: Adolf Smitmans. Episcopal seminary, Münster 1992
• The artist Dávid Mária Kiss . In: Westfalenspiegel , No. 6, 1980
• Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich, acquisition of the woodcut "Circle" by Dávid Mária Kiss by the Staatl. Graphic Collection Munich (with ill.), In: Münchner Merkur , October 5, 1962